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STE. EMILIE VALLEY CEMETERY

​Villers-Faucon
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​Somme

​France


Location Information

Villers-Faucon is a village about 14 kilometres north-east of Peronne, and Ste. Emilie Valley Cemetery is 2 kilometres east of the village on the road between Epehy and Roisel.


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Villers-Faucon was captured by the 5th Cavalry Division on 27 March 1917, lost on 22 March 1918, and retaken by the III Corps on 7 September 1918.

On the site of this cemetery at the Armistice, there were three large graves of Commonwealth soldiers buried by the Germans, which now form part of Plot I. The remainder of the cemetery is composed almost entirely of graves brought in from an older cemetery of the same name or from the battlefields. A large proportion of these concentrated graves were those of soldiers of the 16th (Irish) Division who died in March 1918.

Ste. Emilie Valley Cemetery contains 513 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 222 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 21 casualties believed to be buried among them. There are also ten German burials in the cemetery.

Casualty Details: UK 484, Canada 1, Australia 25, New Zealand 1, South Africa 2, Germany 10, Total Burials: 523.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and
Arthur James Scott Hutton
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38810 Driver 
W. J. Fraser M. M.
 "A" Battery, 83rd Brigade. Royal Field Artillery
19th September 1918.
Plot II. D. 19.

Husband of M. Fraser, of 35, Hall Place, Paddington, London. 

Picture Courtesy of Mr&Mrs J. Watts, Mrs Watts is the Granddaughter of this soldier.

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767 Gunner
Neville Cooper Jefferies
75th (Natal) Siege Battery. South African Heavy Artillery
21st April 1917, aged 23.
Plot III. D. 18.


Son of Roland John Jefferies, of "Vectis," Brunswick Rd., Tamboers Kloof, Cape Town.
 
Originally buried in the grounds of the Chateau St. Emilie (above right) before both were moved in to this cemetery
 

Pictures courtesy of Lenore Jefferies

PictureClick on image to enlarge
697084 Driver
Richard Smith
277th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
21st March 1918.
Plot I. C. 12. (Coll)


Husband of F. Smith, of 8, Timpson St., Earl Rd., Liverpool.


Remembered by Thelma Copeland and Claire Dwyer



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