LIHONS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
Location Information
Lihons is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme on the road from Amiens to Nesle. The French National Cemetery is on the north side of this road and on the west side of the Bois Crepey.
History Information
It was begun (as the Cimetiere des Pommiers) in January, 1915, add enlarged after the Armistice by concentrations from the battlefields and from other Military Cemeteries. It contains the graves of 4,200 French soldiers (many of whom fell in August, 1914), and those of five soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada who fell in March and August, 1918. Two of the British graves are unnamed.
Burial Details
283138 Private Emerson Waldo Gates, 85th Bn. Canadian Infantry, died 10th August 1918, aged 22. Son of Silas L. and Mary E. Gates, of Port Williams, King's Co., Nova Scotia. INSCRIPTION. HE DIED FOR OTHERS.
108698 Private C. G. Painter, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), died 30th March 1918.
32052 Private James Steele, 17th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, died 23rd February 1917, aged 34. Son of Mrs. James Steele, of 20, Glamis Rd., Forfar; husband of Mary Christie Steele, of 46, Dundee Rd., Forfar.
60143 Private Joseph Tyrell, 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers, died 25th March 1918, aged 36. Son of Alfred and Ellen Tyrrell; husband of Edith Mary Tyrrell, of 1, Arthurs Court, High St., Stanstead Abbotts, Ware.
Lihons is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme on the road from Amiens to Nesle. The French National Cemetery is on the north side of this road and on the west side of the Bois Crepey.
History Information
It was begun (as the Cimetiere des Pommiers) in January, 1915, add enlarged after the Armistice by concentrations from the battlefields and from other Military Cemeteries. It contains the graves of 4,200 French soldiers (many of whom fell in August, 1914), and those of five soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada who fell in March and August, 1918. Two of the British graves are unnamed.
Burial Details
283138 Private Emerson Waldo Gates, 85th Bn. Canadian Infantry, died 10th August 1918, aged 22. Son of Silas L. and Mary E. Gates, of Port Williams, King's Co., Nova Scotia. INSCRIPTION. HE DIED FOR OTHERS.
108698 Private C. G. Painter, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), died 30th March 1918.
32052 Private James Steele, 17th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, died 23rd February 1917, aged 34. Son of Mrs. James Steele, of 20, Glamis Rd., Forfar; husband of Mary Christie Steele, of 46, Dundee Rd., Forfar.
60143 Private Joseph Tyrell, 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers, died 25th March 1918, aged 36. Son of Alfred and Ellen Tyrrell; husband of Edith Mary Tyrrell, of 1, Arthurs Court, High St., Stanstead Abbotts, Ware.
