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Hesbecourt Communal Cemetery |
| Somme, France |
Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell
| Hesbécourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 3km east of the town of Roisel which is 10km east of Péronne on the D6. The cemetery lies within the Communal graveyard behind the Church. The Communal Cemetery was used by German medical units, but the graves of United Kingdom and Australian soldiers, buried by their comrades, remain in it, in five groups. Those of two American and five German soldiers have been removed. There are now 12 identified and 2 unknown Royal Sussex Regt. of the 1914-1918 war commemorated in this site. They are buried in five separate plots and the following regiments are represented: |
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Australian units 2
1st Dragoon Guards (King's) 1 Manchester Regt. 1 Machine Gun Corps (Inf.) 2 Royal Field Artillery 2 Royal Flying Corps 2 Royal Sussex Regt. 1 Royal Warwickshire Regt. 1
Total known 12
Unknown Royal Sussex Regt. 2
Total burials 14
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