Toutencourt Communal Cemetery
Somme, France

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

 

Toutencourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, halfway along the D23, Doullens to Corbie road and 18 kilometres south-east of Doullens. The Communal Cemetery is at the entrance to the village along this road from Doullens.


The cemetery contains 23 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. These were made between October 1915 and August 1918.

 

Shot at Dawn: 62536 Sapper R. Bell, 123rd Field Coy. Royal Engineers, executed for murder on 22/05/1918.

 

The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8 November 2006.

Burial details:

 
  A B
  Toutencourt Communal Cemetery, Somme Burials
  Royal Field Artillery 6
  Army Service Corps 2
  Lancashire Fusiliers 2
  Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 2
  North Irish Horse 2
  Royal Engineers 2
  Australian Pioneers 1
  Chaplain to the Forces 1
  General List 1
  Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 1
  Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force 1
  Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) 1
  Sherwood Foresters 1
     
  Total known burials 23
     

 

 

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