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SOUMOY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Namur

​Belgium

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.1866, Longitude: 4.44136

Location Information

The village of Soumoy is located north-west of the town of Philippville off the N40. From the motorway E42 which runs between Namur and Mons turn off onto the Charleroi ring R3, follow the ring to the junction with the N5 and turn onto the N5 direction Philippeville. Follow the N5 to the junction with the N40 and turn onto the N40 direction Beaumont. In the village of Daussois turn left to Soumoy, in the village turn left towards Senzeilles and the cemetery is along on the right. The graves are located at the right hand side at the rear.


Historical Information

Soumoy Communal Cemetery contains the graves of an officer and five men of the 206th Field Company, Royal Engineers, killed on 3 December 1918, when the German ammunition they were salvaging exploded.


Burial Details


131400 Sapper Arthur Kenneth Atkinson, aged 22. Son of Mrs. J Atkinson, of 27, Fishburn Terrace, Fishburn, Ferryhill, Co. Durham.

Second Lieutenant William Bruce, aged 23. Son of William and Helen Bruce, of 101, Menzies Rd., Aberdeen.

454562 Sapper Herbert William Bryant, aged 25.
 Son of William and Amy Bryant, of Corsham, Wilts; husband of L. Bryant, of 221, Lyladstone Rd., Barry Dock, Cardiff.​

50058 Sapper Frank Hackney, aged 30.
 Son of Francis J. and Mary Hackney, of 7, Newton St., Commercial Brow, Hyde, Cheshire.

167111 Sapper Judah Jacobs, aged 25. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Jacobs, of 12, Bacon St., Bethnal Green, London.

470874 Sapper William Cuthbert McCarthy, aged 23.
 Son of Robert and Margaret A. McCarthy, of 29, Simonside Terrace, East Jarrow, Co. Durham.


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