ISOLATED GRAVE NEAR ÉTRICOURT
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
The hamlet of Étricourt is south of the road from Rocquigny to Equancourt on the Canal du Nord. On the hillside west of Étricourt is buried a British airman, killed whilst flying over enemy lines and was buried by the Germans beside his machine.
Burial Details
Captain Cecil Robert Tidswell, 19th Sqdn, Royal Flying Corps and 1st (Royal) Dragoons, died 16th October 1916, aged 36. Son of Richard H Tidswell, of 49, Wilton Crescent, Wimbledon, London.
The hamlet of Étricourt is south of the road from Rocquigny to Equancourt on the Canal du Nord. On the hillside west of Étricourt is buried a British airman, killed whilst flying over enemy lines and was buried by the Germans beside his machine.
Burial Details
Captain Cecil Robert Tidswell, 19th Sqdn, Royal Flying Corps and 1st (Royal) Dragoons, died 16th October 1916, aged 36. Son of Richard H Tidswell, of 49, Wilton Crescent, Wimbledon, London.
