Bancourt Communal Cemetery, Bancourt, Pas-de-Calais, France
Posted by: elyob
N 50° 06.135 E 002° 53.862
31U E 492684 N 5550004
The Communal Cemetery is a little east of the village of Bancourt on the road from Fremicourt to Villers-en-Flos.
Waymark Code: WMTCWE
Location: Hauts-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/03/2016
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This is a local cemetery for the villagers of Bancourt that also includes seven Commonwealth casualties from the First World War. The following text is taken from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site.
Bancourt Communal Cemetery contains the graves of six officers of the Royal Flying Corps (one of them unidentified) buried by the Germans in the autumn of 1916, and one soldier from New Zealand who died in September 1918. In addition, there is a special memorial to an Australian soldier, buried in the cemetery in April 1917, whose grave was destroyed by shell fire.