Manancourt Communal Cemetery
Somme, France

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

 

Manancourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, two and a half miles South of Lechelle. The commune contained at one time more than 1,000 German and a few British graves in the German Extensions to the Churchyard and Communal Cemetery and in the German Cemetery. The Communal Cemetery now contains, on the North-West side, the grave of an officer of the Durham Light Infantry who fell in September, 1918.

No. of Identified Casualties: 1

 

 

Burial details:

 

2/Lt. J. N. LUKE. 5th Bn. Durham Light Inf. Died, 9th Sept. 1918

 

 

 

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