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BOVELLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Somme

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.89023, Longitude: 2.13445

Location Information

Bovelles is a village and commune some 11 kilometres west of Amiens and about 1 kilometre south of the D.211 road from that town to Molliens-Vidane. The communal cemetery is at the northern edge of the village, in the by-road leading from the D.211 road. The British grave is near the middle of the western boundary, about 23 metres from the north-western corner of the chapel.


Images in gallery below © Jean-Claude Graux

Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
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552363 Serjeant 
James Darraugh
1st The Royal Dragoons, Royal Armoured Corps
1st September 1944, aged 32.
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Son of Samuel and Ethel Darraugh, of Mossley, Lancashire; husband of Clara Darraugh, of Mossley.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery
Bovelles Communal Cemetery

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Disclaimer


The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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