Puchevillers British Cemetery

• Country France
• Total identified casualties 1765 Find these casualties
• Region Somme
• Identified casualties from First World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.056, Longitude: 2.39625

Location information

Puchevillers is a village on the D11 about 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The British Cemetery is a little west of the village. The first Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost is situated by the church in the village.

Visiting information

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

Puchevillers British Cemetery is in the Somme region of France.

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.056, Longitude: 2.39625

ARRIVAL

The cemetery is to the west of the village of Puchevillers; the route to the cemetery is signposted. The cemetery is at the end of a narrow single-track, farm road.

PARKING

There is a layby at the side of the main road in the village. There is no room to turn larger vehicles around anywhere near the entrance to the cemetery.

MAIN ENTRANCE

The cemetery is a rectangular shape, surrounded with a red brick wall, topped with Portland stone. The Cross of Sacrifice and the Stone of Remembrance are positioned close to the main entrance.

At the main entrance are two Portland stone gateposts displaying the cemetery name, with a low-level black metal double gate approximately 120 cm wide.

There are four seating areas with stone benches on either side of the centre point of the cemetery

The Register Box is on the inside of the main entrance built into the wall of a gate post.

There is a red brick and Portland stone Memorial Arch which also acts as a shelter, at the far end of the cemetery from the main entrance. The arch forms a separation between the cemetery and extension. There are two steps down into the extension area through the arch. The cemetery is on a gentle slope and the internal paths are grass.

ALTERNATIVE ACCESS

The only access into the cemetery is through the main entrance.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Puchevillers British Cemetery is cemetery is permanently open

History information

In June 1916, just before the opening of the Battles of the Somme, the 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Puchevillers. Plots I to V, and almost the whole of Plot VI were made by those hospitals before the end of March 1917. For the next two months the 2nd/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station used the cemetery.

Plot VII contains for the most part the graves of men who died in the German advance in 1918, many of whom were buried by the 49th Clearing Station in March 1918, or by the 48th Labour Group in August.

Puchevillers British Cemetery contains 1,763 First World War burials.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.