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FOLIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Somme

​France


Location Information

Folies is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the North-East side of the straight main road from Amiens to Roye. The Communal Cemetery is located in the South of the village.
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History Information

Folies was the scene of fierce fighting in March 1918, and it was captured by the Canadian Corps in the following August. The communal cemetery, which was used also by French and German troops, contains the graves of two Commonwealth servicemen who died in August 1918. The extension, made by the Canadian troops in the same month, has been removed to Bouchoir New British Cemetery. There are five servicemen commemorated here of which 3 are unidentified.


Burial Details


38206 Lance Corporal Alexander Christie, 15th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, died 10th August 1918, aged 29. Son of Alexander Christie and Margaret Potter Christie, of 8, Carnegie St., Arbroath. INSCRIPTION. HE DIED FOR THE RIGHT.

148621 Private J. R. Kenward, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, died 10th August 1918.


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