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FLESSELLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France

Location Information

Flesselles is a village and commune about 13 kilometres north-north-west of Amiens and some 5 kilometres west of Villers-Bocage, a village on the main road from Amiens to Doullens and Arras. The village is on the N.333 road from Amiens to Auxi-le-Chateau, and the communal cemetery is north of it on the D.117 road to the neighbouring village of Naours. North of the entrance gates, and adjacent to the western boundary are the graves of three soldiers of the United Kingdom forces.


Burial Details


316773 Lance Serjeant Laurence Joseph Cribben, M. M. The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, died 1st September 1944, aged 33. Son of Laurence and Bridget Cribben; husband of Margaret Cribben.

6855697 Rifleman Harold Ruffell, 12th (2nd Bn. The Queen's Westminsters) Bn.  King's Royal Rifle Corps, died 1st September 1944, aged 22.. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ruffell, of West Dulwich, London.

14213844 Trooper John Alfred Sharpe, The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, died 1st September 1944, aged 21. Son of Walter John and Rose Ethel Sharpe, of Aldershot, Hampshire.


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