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FRICOURT NEW MILITARY CEMETERY 
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​Somme

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.00119, Longitude: 2.70811

Fricourt New Military Cemetery
Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage
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Location Information

The village of Fricourt is approximately 5 kilometres east of Albert.

Take the D938 (Albert-Peronne) and turn north 4 kilometres from Albert onto the D147. Continue through the village
and the Cemetery is situated on the north-west side of the village.


Visiting Information

This cemetery contains graves in which more than one casualty is buried and on which more than one headstone is erected. As each of the graves has a single grave number, it follows that the numbering of the grave will in some cases not correspond with the number of the headstone as determined by counting from the beginning of the row. Visitors should therefore examine the whole row if they do not at once find the grave in which they are interested.


Historical Information

On 30 June 1916, Fricourt village was just within the German front line. It was attacked on 1 July by the 17th Division, and by the end of the day it was caught between that division to the west, the 21st to the north and the 7th to the south. the village was occupied by the 17th Division the following day. From 25 March 1918 to the following 26 August, Fricourt was again in German hands.

Two cemeteries were made by the 17th Division, and most of the dead buried in them belonged to that division.

Fricourt New Military Cemetery is in fact four big graves, made by the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment after the capture of Fricourt in July 1916, and a few single graves of September 1916.

The cemetery contains 210 First World War burials, 26 of them unidentified. 159 of the graves belong to the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment.

Total Burials: 210.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 182, New Zealand 2. Total 184.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 26.
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The cemetery was designed by
A J S Hutton.
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Lieutenant 
Humphrey Decius Allen
10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 28.
Row C. 11.

Son of Theophilus and Elizabeth Mary Allen, of Stanyards, Chobham, Surrey.



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Captain
Archibald Joseph Anderson
"C" Coy. 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 23.
Row C. 2.

Son of Edward and Mary Anderson, of 302, Electric Railway Chambers, Winnipeg, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription; "From Winnipeg, Canada."


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24783 Private
Thomas Birdsall
10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916
Row D. 2.

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Captain
Geoffrey Gaskell Blackburn
​10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 27.
Row C. 14.


Son of Henry Gaskell Blackburn, F.C.A., and Elizabeth Blackburn, of Bank House, Horsforth, Leeds. B.A. Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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13367 Private
Ernest Copley
​10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916
Row E. 1.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Under The Palms."


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13013 Company Serjeant Major
James Gelder
​10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 26.
Row E. 1.

Son of James and Elizabeth Gelder, of Leeds; husband of Ann Gelder, of 14, Lincoln Mount, Beckett St., Leeds.

His headstone bears the simple inscription; "Sadly Missed."


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16042 Private
Claude Herbert Edwin Gilbert
10th Bn. 
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 27.
Row C. 16.


Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gilbert, of Carshalton, Surrey.

His headstone bears the inscription "The Dead In Christ Shall Rise First Thessalonians 1st CHP. 4 Verse 16"

Picture courtesy of Jane Gilbert (Great Niece)

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Lieutenant
​Alfred Victor Ratcliffe
10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 29.
Row C. 8.

Son of Frederick and Florence Brotherton Ratcliffe, of 15, Sloane Gardens, Chelsea, London.

His headstone bears the following inscription; "The World Was Sweeter For His Life And Life Lives .. Poorer. By A Friend .A.V.R."

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12374 Lance Corporal
​John Severn
10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 33.
Row D. 2.

Son of Thomas and Hannah Severn, of 14, Babbington Cottages, Cinderhill, Nottingham.

The inscription on his headstone reads; "Sleep On Dear Son. Your Life For The Country You Nobly Gave."


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10772 Private
Ernest Stowe
10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916, aged 26.
Row F. 1.


Son of Ned and Polly Stowe; husband of Florence Ellen May Stowe, of 9, Beulah St., Woodhouse St., Leeds.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Still Remembered."


Image courtesy of Dave Stowe


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12036 Lance Corporal
​John T. R. Tuttle
10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st July 1916

Row F. 2.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

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The bombardment of Fricourt, 2 July 1916. Fricourt was captured early in the morning of the 2nd by the 17th Division. © IWM (Q 114)
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A group of British soldiers having a rest on their way from the trenches. Near Fricourt, on the Fricourt-Contalmaison road. November 1916. © IWM Q 4495

Images in gallery below © Geerhard Joos

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