Rancourt Military Cemetery
Rancourt, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France
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The Military Cemetery, managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, is on the outskirts of the south side of the village. It lies in the fields to the right of the main road facing a large French military cemetery. This cemetery is not the German military cemetery, which is nearby, nor the French military cemetery, which is across the street (Route D1017).
Rancourt was captured by the French on 24 September 1916, and remained in Allied hands until 24 March 1918 and the German advance. It was recaptured by the 47th (London) Division on 1 September 1918.
The cemetery was begun by units of the Guards Division in the winter of 1916-17, and used again by the burial officers of the 12th and 18th Divisions in September 1918. After the Armistice, six graves from the surrounding battlefields were brought into Row E.
Rancourt Military Cemetery contains 93 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 20 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them. There are also three Second World War burials in the cemetery; these were aircrew killed 21st May 1940 and whose remains were identified in 2014/15. They had previously been commemorated as ‘missing' on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England.
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
The Military Cemetery, managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, is on the outskirts of the south side of the village. It lies in the fields to the right of the main road facing a large French military cemetery. This cemetery is not the German military cemetery, which is nearby, nor the French military cemetery, which is across the street (Route D1017).
Rancourt was captured by the French on 24 September 1916, and remained in Allied hands until 24 March 1918 and the German advance. It was recaptured by the 47th (London) Division on 1 September 1918.
The cemetery was begun by units of the Guards Division in the winter of 1916-17, and used again by the burial officers of the 12th and 18th Divisions in September 1918. After the Armistice, six graves from the surrounding battlefields were brought into Row E.
Rancourt Military Cemetery contains 93 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 20 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them. There are also three Second World War burials in the cemetery; these were aircrew killed 21st May 1940 and whose remains were identified in 2014/15. They had previously been commemorated as ‘missing' on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England.
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
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- Added: 14 Dec 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2199891
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