NAMPS-AU-VAL BRITISH CEMETERY

Namps-au-Val

Somme

France

General Directions: Namps-au-Val is a village in the Department of the Somme approximately 16 kilometres south-west of Amiens. The British Cemetery is between the village and the railway station.

At the end of March 1918, when the German offensive in Picardy began, the 41st, 50th and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Namps-au-Val, remaining until the middle of April. Almost all the burials in the cemetery were carried out by them, but nine graves in Plot II, Row D, were brought after the Armistice from Conty French Military Cemetery.

Victoria Cross: Captain Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, VC, Lord Strathcona's Horse,  died of wounds, 31/03/1918, plot I. H. 1.

Casualty Details: UK 326, Canada 24, Australia 57, South Africa 1, France 16, Total Burials: 424

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