TOUTENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
Location Information
Toutencourt is found halfway along the D23, Doullens to Corbie road, 18 kilometres south-east of Doullens. The Communal Cemetery is at the entrance to the village along this road from Doullens.
Historical Information
Burials were made in this communal cemetery between October 1915 and August 1918.
The cemetery contains 23 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
Toutencourt is found halfway along the D23, Doullens to Corbie road, 18 kilometres south-east of Doullens. The Communal Cemetery is at the entrance to the village along this road from Doullens.
Historical Information
Burials were made in this communal cemetery between October 1915 and August 1918.
The cemetery contains 23 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
Shot at Dawn
62536 Sapper Robert Bell, 123rd Field Coy. Royal Engineers, executed for murder on 22nd May 1918, aged 29. Plot II. A. 9. Son of Mrs. Annie Bell, of 84, Big Jug Yard, Claypath, Durham. On 17 April 1918, he shot Second Lieutenant Wynell Lloyd dead during a rifle inspection at Senlis. (Putkowski,pp.244-245). His victim is buried at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension.
62536 Sapper Robert Bell, 123rd Field Coy. Royal Engineers, executed for murder on 22nd May 1918, aged 29. Plot II. A. 9. Son of Mrs. Annie Bell, of 84, Big Jug Yard, Claypath, Durham. On 17 April 1918, he shot Second Lieutenant Wynell Lloyd dead during a rifle inspection at Senlis. (Putkowski,pp.244-245). His victim is buried at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension.
Picture © Geerhard Joos
