Ste. Emilie British Cemetery
***No longer exists***
This cemetery was concentrated into Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery in 1930.
Ste. Emilie British Cemetery, Villers-Faucon, was concentrated to Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery in 1930, it stood in the grounds of the Chateau of Ste. Emilie, between the house and the railway station. It was begun by the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division in May, 1917, carried on by Cavalry and other units and Field Ambulances until March, 1918, and used again by British and American troops in September-November, 1918. (The American 27th and 30th Divisions, with Australian troops, attacked and carried the Hindenburg Line, a little East of Ste. Emilie, on the 27th-30th September, 1918.) It contained the graves of 196 United Kingdom soldiers, 108 American, 22 Australian and one South African; but the American graves (mainly of the 107th and 108th Infantry Regiments were removed to Somme American Cemetery, Bony, before 1922.
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