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Foucaucourt Communal Cemetery |
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Somme, France |
Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell
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Foucaucourt is a village 16 kilometres south-south-east of Albert on the straight main road from Amiens to St Quentin. The village was in German hands from the 26th March to the 27th August, 1918. Near the South-West corner of the Communal Cemetery are the graves of one soldier from the United Kingdom, buried by the enemy in March, 1918, and seven buried by their comrades in August and September, 1918. Number of Identified Casualties: 8 |
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Burial Details:
2nd Lt. E. ATTWATER, 58th Coy. Machine Gun
Corps (Inf.) 22nd March 1918, aged 29
Pte. Abraham COOPER, King's Own Yorkshire Light Inf. 31st Aug. 1918, aged 20 Pte. G. DONALDSON, Highland Light Inf. 29th Aug. 1918 Gnr. Harry HEALD, Royal Garrison Artillery. 2nd Sept. 1918, aged 23 Gnr. J. E. LEWIS, Royal Garrison Artillery, 31st Aug. 1918, aged 27 Gnr. W. PONTIN, Royal Garrison Artillery, 2nd Sept. 1918 Gnr. F. SWIFT, Royal Garrison Artillery, 2nd Sept. 1918, aged 26 L/Cpl. Frank Gilbert WEIGHT, Royal Engineers, 30th Aug. 1918, aged 22
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