PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

Puchevillers

Somme

France

General Directions: Puchevillers is a village on the D11 about 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The British Cemetery is a little west of the village. The first Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost is situated by the church in the village.

In June 1916, just before the opening of the Battles of the Somme, the 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Puchevillers. Plots I to V, and almost the whole of Plot VI were made by those hospitals before the end of March 1917. For the next two months the 2nd/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station used the cemetery. Plot VII contains for the most part the graves of men who died in the German advance in 1918, many of whom were buried by the 49th Clearing Station in March 1918, or by the 48th Labour Group in August.

Casualty Details: UK 1132, Canada 213, Australia 417, New Zealand 1, Total Burials: 1763

7245 Serjeant

George Love

2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles

30/09/1916, aged 34.

Son of Robert James and Rachel Love, of Scotch St., Downpatrick, Co. Down.

Plot V. B. 21.

Picture courtesy of Lorraine Rea, George Love was her husbands great-uncle

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