FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Fouquescourt
Somme
France
General Directions: Fouquescourt is a village 35 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.
Fouquescourt village was captured by the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 10 August 1918. Fouquescourt British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds and from the battlefields in a wide area round the village. The date of death in the great majority of the burials here is February or March 1917, or March, April or August 1918, although there are a few graves of 1915 and these can be found in Plots I and III.
Victoria Cross: Lieutenant, James Edward TAIT, VC, MC, of the 78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), he was killed on the 11th August 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on a special memorial in the cemetery.
Casualty Details: UK 187, Canada 138, Australia 49, South Africa 2, Total Burials: 376
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