Hesbecourt Communal Cemetery

• Country France
• Total identified casualties 12 Find these casualties
• Region Somme
• Identified casualties from First World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.94424, Longitude: 3.13203

Location information

Hesbecourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 3 kilometres east of the town of Roisel which is 10 kilometres east of Peronne on the D6. The Cemetery lies within the Communal graveyard behind the church.

History information

The Communal Cemetery was used by German medical units, but the graves of United Kingdom and Australian soldiers, buried by their comrades, remain in it, in five groups. Those of two American and five German soldiers have been removed. There are now over 10, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.