STE. EMILIE VALLEY CEMETERY
Villers-Faucon
Somme
France
General Directions: Villers-Faucon is a village about 14 kilometres north-east of Peronne, and Ste Emilie Valley Cemetery is 2 kilometres east of the village on the road between Epehy and Roisel.
Villers-Faucon was captured by the 5th Cavalry Division on 27 March 1917, lost on 22 March 1918, and retaken by the III Corps on 7 September 1918. On the site of this cemetery at the Armistice, there were three large graves of Commonwealth soldiers buried by the Germans, which now form part of Plot I. The remainder of the cemetery is composed almost entirely of graves brought in from an older cemetery of the same name or from the battlefields. A large proportion of these concentrated graves were those of soldiers of the 16th (Irish) Division who died in March 1918.
Casualty Details: UK 484, Canada 1, Australia 25, New Zealand 1, South Africa 2, Germany 10, Total Burials: 523
 Picture Courtesy of Mr&Mrs J. Watts, Mrs Watts is the Grand-daughter of this soldier. |
Buried within this cemetery: 38810 Driver W. J. FRASER. MM "A" Battery, 83rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Date of Death: 19/09/1918 Husband of M. Fraser, of 35, Hall Place, Paddington, London. Grave/Memorial Reference: II. D. 19.
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