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NEVERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Nièvre

​France


Location Information

Nevers is the chief town in the Department of the Nièvre and is situated 67 kilometres east-south-east of Bourges and just east of the A27 Motorway. The communal cemetery is situated at 29 Rue Jean Gautherin, east off the Boulevard Maréchal Leclerc and contains three British War Graves in the Military Plot (10); two were moved from the American Plot.



Burial Details

901357 Driver Percy Edward Bridger, Royal Field Artillery, died 10th February 1918, aged 28. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Bridger; husband of Mrs. F. M. Arnold (formerly Bridger) of 14 Model Dwellings, Church Street, Brighton

34523 Corporal Edward Elphick, M. M. 9th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died 12th July 1918, aged 36. Son of Henry Elphick of Eastbourne; husband of Mabel Maud Elphick of 17 Beach Road, Eastbourne

12889 Corporal Fredrick Wright, Royal Field Artillery, died 9th May 1918, aged 22. Son of James William and Mary Ann Wright of 38 Heald Avenue, Rusholme, Manchester

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