PICQUIGNY BRITISH CEMETERY

Picquigny

Somme

France

General Directions: Picquigny is a small town in the Department of the Somme, about 13 kilometres north-west of Amiens. It lies on the main road between Abbeville and Amiens on the D3.

During the first four years of the First World War, Picquigny was on the lines of communication for French and Commonwealth forces, and there are ten burials from these years in the communal cemetery, opposite the church. At the end of March 1918, the 5th and 46th Casualty Clearing Stations were brought to Picquigny to deal with casualties of the German advance on Amiens and the British Cemetery was opened a little west of the town. At the end of April, the casualty clearing stations moved on. All but four of the burials are from April 1918.

Casualty Details: UK 99, Canada 1, Australia 30, France 1, Total Burials: 131

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