FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Fienvillers
Somme
France
General Directions: Fienvillers is a village in the Department of the Somme, on the Doullens-Abbeville main road, 11 kilometres south-west of Doullens. There is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the Doullens-Abbeville main road. The British Cemetery is at the south-east side of the road to Pernois, near the south-west corner of the village.
This cemetery was made by the 38th and 34th Casualty Clearing Stations which were posted at Fienvillers in the summer of 1918. It was begun in May 1918 and used until the following September, and one grave was brought in after the Armistice from an isolated position near Bernaville.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & Arthur James Scott Hutton
Shot at Dawn: Private J A Anderson of the 12th King's (Liverpool) Regiment was shot for cowardice on 12/9/1916, he is buried in plot D 22.
The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8 November 2006.
Casualty Details: UK 122, Canada 1, New Zealand 1, Total Burials: 124
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