MANANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
Location Information
Manancourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, two and a half miles South of Lechelle. The commune contained at one time more than 1,000 German and a few British graves in the German Extensions to the Churchyard and Communal Cemetery and in the German Cemetery. The Communal Cemetery now contains, on the North-West side, the grave of an officer of the Durham Light Infantry who fell in September, 1918.
Manancourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, two and a half miles South of Lechelle. The commune contained at one time more than 1,000 German and a few British graves in the German Extensions to the Churchyard and Communal Cemetery and in the German Cemetery. The Communal Cemetery now contains, on the North-West side, the grave of an officer of the Durham Light Infantry who fell in September, 1918.
Pictures and Information below © Jean-Claude Graux
Second Lieutenant
John Norman Luke
5th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
9th September 1918.
The following information is provided by Jean-Claude Graux.
"My grandfather, aged 12 in 1918, remembered this wounded soldier after the liberation of the village on 4 September 1918 by the British army. Unfortunately he died of his wounds on September 9th, 1918, near the ruins of the church. I have been looking for information about this officer, with no results for many many years, until July 2017."
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John Norman Luke
5th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
9th September 1918.
The following information is provided by Jean-Claude Graux.
"My grandfather, aged 12 in 1918, remembered this wounded soldier after the liberation of the village on 4 September 1918 by the British army. Unfortunately he died of his wounds on September 9th, 1918, near the ruins of the church. I have been looking for information about this officer, with no results for many many years, until July 2017."
Please click on image to enlarge
Pictures below © Johan Pauwels
