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BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY 
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Somme

​France


GPS Co-Ordinates: Latitude: 49.74026, Longitude: 2.68846

Bouchoir New British Cemetery
Location Information

Bouchoir is a village on the straight main road from Amiens to Roye.

From Peronne take the N17 to Roye then the D934 to Amiens. Travel for approximately 8 kilometres and just before the village of Bouchoir the cemetery will be found on the right hand side of the road.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to this site is normally possible, but may be by alternative entrance. 


Historical Information

The village of Bouchoir passed into German hands on 27 March 1918 but was recovered by the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 9 August 1918.

The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought there from several small Commonwealth cemeteries and from the battlefields around Bouchoir and south of the village. Almost all date from March, April or August 1918.


The cemetery now contains 763 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 231 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Another special memorial commemorates an airman buried in Laboissiere German Cemetery whose grave could not be found.

The graves in Plots I and II are numbered consecutively from 1 to 144. Those in Plot III are numbered from 1 to 135, and the same system applies to Plot IV. Plots V and VI are numbered by rows in the usual way.

Total Burials: 763.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 337, Canada 191, Australia 3, South Africa 1. Total 532.

Unidentified Casualties: 231.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker 
and William Harrison Cowlishaw

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Battle of Amiens. Arranging blankets to shade from the sun wounded awaiting evacuation from a Field Dressing Station at Le Quesnel, 11 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7299)
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7098 Private
Charles Henry Brand
15th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
10th August 1918, aged 26.
Plot III. B. 34.


Son of Edward and Alice Brand, of Cambridge; husband of Letitia Brand, of 14, Petworth St., Cambridge.

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859948 Private
John MacFarlane
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
16th August 1918.
Plot IV. C. 81.



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722230 Private
Pjetur Olson
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry, (Manitoba Regiment)
16th August 1918.
Plot IV. C. 78.


Husband of Mrs. J. Olson, of Gimli, Manitoba.

Picture courtesy of A. R. Harris

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124300 Private
Alfred Simpson
36th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
21st March 1918.
Plot II. D. 143.

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British supply tanks going into action between Amiens and Bouchoir. © IWM (Q 56437)
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French gunners loading a 90 mm artillery gun near Bouchoir. © IWM Q 78010
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Battle of Amiens. In front of Bouchoir captured by British cavalry on 9 August. The French took over the line south of the Amiens-Roye Road seen in this photograph, 11 August 1918. © IWM Q 8200
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Battle of Amiens. Wounded soldiers at a Field Dressing Station at Le Quesnel awaiting evacuation, 11 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7296)
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Battle of Amiens. Canadian medics dressing a wounded soldier at an open-air field dressing station at Le Quesnel, 11 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7298)

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