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[Patrick Mestdag]

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, FAMPOUX






In het midden aan de horizont zie je de mijslakken van lens





Het slagveld tussen Gavrelle links en rechts Fampoux
Gezien van Sunken Road cemetery
Met links aan de horizont Naval trench cemetery (foto hieronder)



Op 100 meter ervan in de sunken road
staat het Seaforth Highlanders kruis .


Zie ook
http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/viewtopic.php?p=290044#290044

Fampoux village was taken by the 4th Division on 9 April 1917, lost at the end of March 1918, and retaken at the end of the following August.
Sunken Road Cemetery is at the summit of the sunken road to Bailleul, on the east side.
It was made by burial officers and fighting units between April 1917 and January 1918.
Sunken Road Cemetery contains 196 burials and commemorations of the First World War.
26 of the burials are unidentified and sixteen graves, destroyed by shell fire, are now represented by special memorials.

Meer info
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=59502&mode=1


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Patrick
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