LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY
Corbie
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.91094, Longitude: 2.48173
Location Information
Corbie is a village 15 kilometres south-west of Albert and approximately 23 kilometres due east of Amiens. La Neuville British Cemetery is west of the village on the south side of the road from La Neuville to Daours.
Visiting Information
For your information, vehicular access to this Cemetery is via a rough track with limited parking and turning space, thereafter it is a walk of 300m to the Cemetery entrance. The track is regularly used by large agricultural machinery and lorries.
Historical Information
In April 1916, No.21 Casualty Clearing Station came to La Neuville and remained there throughout the 1916 Battles of the Somme, until March 1917. La Neuville British Cemetery was opened early in July 1916. Most of the burials date from this period, but a few graves were added during the fighting on the Somme in 1918.
Neuville British Cemetery contains 866 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also 27 German war graves.
Total Burials: 896.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 816, Germany 27, South Africa 24, Australia 21. Total 888.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and George Hartley Goldsmith
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
British troops reading newspapers on the top of an artillery shell dump outside the church at La Neuville, Corbie. © IWM (Q 3927)
Image above © Johan Pauwels
27 June 1918. Australian bridge sentries relaxing in their comfortable quarters at La Neuville, near Corbie. Note the soldier on the right is holding his gun with fixed bayonet.
Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
Image above © Johan Pauwels
