HESBÉCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
Location Information
Hesbécourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 3 kilometres east of the town of Roisel which is 10 kilometres east of Peronne on the D6. The Cemetery lies within the Communal graveyard behind the church.
History Information
The Communal Cemetery was used by German medical units, but the graves of United Kingdom and Australian soldiers, buried by their comrades, remain in it, in five groups. Those of two American and five German soldiers have been removed. There are 14, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site, of which 2 are unidentified.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
Hesbécourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 3 kilometres east of the town of Roisel which is 10 kilometres east of Peronne on the D6. The Cemetery lies within the Communal graveyard behind the church.
History Information
The Communal Cemetery was used by German medical units, but the graves of United Kingdom and Australian soldiers, buried by their comrades, remain in it, in five groups. Those of two American and five German soldiers have been removed. There are 14, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site, of which 2 are unidentified.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
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Captain
Guy Lindsay Cruickshank, D. S. O., M. C. and Twice Mentioned in Despatches
70th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
15th September 1916, aged 26.
Son of James and Marie Cruikshank, of 4, Devonshire House, Devonshire Place, Eastbourne.
Guy Lindsay Cruickshank, D. S. O., M. C. and Twice Mentioned in Despatches
70th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
15th September 1916, aged 26.
Son of James and Marie Cruikshank, of 4, Devonshire House, Devonshire Place, Eastbourne.
