VERBERIE FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Verberie
Oise
France
General Directions: Verberie is a village on the River Oise, 11 kilometres south-west of Compiegne on the main road to Senlis and Paris.
Verberie was the scene of fighting on the 1st September, 1914, and in 1918 French Ambulances were stationed in the village. The Cemetery adjoins the South side of the Communal Cemetery. The British graves are of 1914 and 1918, and were brought in from other cemeteries after the Armistice.
The following were the burial grounds from which British graves were taken to the French National Cemetery:- Estrees St. Denis Communal Cemetery French Extension, where six soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom and one Canadian Cavalryman were buried in March and June 1918. Fayal Communal Cemetery French Extension, which contained 849 French and six German graves and that of one British soldier who fell in August, 1918. Glaignes Military Cemetery, on the North side of the village, where 22 British soldiers who fell on the 1st September, 1914, one who fell in July, 1918, 63 French and 35 German were buried. Sery-Magneval French Military Cemetery, which contained 130 French graves, 36 American, 20 British (of 1918) and 81 German.
Casualty Details: UK 76, Canada 1, Total Burials: 77
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