NOYON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Oise
France
Location Information
Noyon is a town half-way between Amiens and Reims, approximately 41 kilometres south-south-west of St Quentin.
The Communal Cemetery (Cimetiere Rue de Lille) is on the northern edge of the centre of town. The main entrance is in the Rue de Lille. The single Commonwealth burial of the 1914-1918 war is in the second row left of the entrance.
Historical Information
Noyon is a small cathedral town of great antiquity, in the Department of the Oise, with a railway station on the line from Paris and Compiegne to St. Quentin and Maubeuge. It was British G.H.Q. on the 26th-28th August, 1914. It was entered by the Germans on the 1st September, 1914, by the French on the 18th March, 1917, and by the Germans again in March, 1918; the French finally retook it on the 29th and 30th August, 1918. It was twice bombarded by the enemy, and in 1918 practically destroyed.
Noyon Communal Cemetery was used by both French and Germans. In the East part of it is the grave of one soldier from the United Kingdom, buried by the enemy in August, 1914.
Burial Details
12864 Gunner Rowland Osborn Smith, 48th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, died 28th August 1914, aged 31. Son of Frederick and Julia Elizabeth Smith, of 137, Malvern Rd., West Kilburn, London. Born in London.
Noyon is a town half-way between Amiens and Reims, approximately 41 kilometres south-south-west of St Quentin.
The Communal Cemetery (Cimetiere Rue de Lille) is on the northern edge of the centre of town. The main entrance is in the Rue de Lille. The single Commonwealth burial of the 1914-1918 war is in the second row left of the entrance.
Historical Information
Noyon is a small cathedral town of great antiquity, in the Department of the Oise, with a railway station on the line from Paris and Compiegne to St. Quentin and Maubeuge. It was British G.H.Q. on the 26th-28th August, 1914. It was entered by the Germans on the 1st September, 1914, by the French on the 18th March, 1917, and by the Germans again in March, 1918; the French finally retook it on the 29th and 30th August, 1918. It was twice bombarded by the enemy, and in 1918 practically destroyed.
Noyon Communal Cemetery was used by both French and Germans. In the East part of it is the grave of one soldier from the United Kingdom, buried by the enemy in August, 1914.
Burial Details
12864 Gunner Rowland Osborn Smith, 48th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, died 28th August 1914, aged 31. Son of Frederick and Julia Elizabeth Smith, of 137, Malvern Rd., West Kilburn, London. Born in London.
