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BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY 
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Somme

​France


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. 

GPS Co-Ordinates: 

Longitude: 2.68846 
​Latitude: 49.74026


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 round 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.

Casualty Details: UK 542, Canada 214, Australia 6, South Africa 1, Total Burials: 763.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
Picture
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.

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


Picture
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

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


Picture
British supply tanks going into action between Amiens and Bouchoir. © IWM (Q 56437)

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    • PAS DE CALAIS
    • SEINE-ET-MARNE
    • SEINE-MARITIME
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