FOURDRINOY CHURCHYARD
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.91839, Longitude: 2.10674
Location Information
Fourdrinoy is a village and commune 14 kilometres west-north-west of Amiens and about 5 kilometres south-west of Picquigny, a small town on the Amiens-Abbeville road (N. 3 5 ). In the churchyard, some 11 metres south of the south-eastern corner of the church, are the graves of two soldiers of the United Kingdom forces.
Burial Details
3601099 Private Joseph Charlton, 4th Bn. Border Regiment, died 24th May 1940.
3599370 Private James William Mackereth, 4th Bn. Border Regiment, died 24th May 1940, aged 23. Son of Joseph and Susan Mackereth, of Kendal, Westmorland. His headstone bears the inscription "He Died That We Might Be Free"
Fourdrinoy is a village and commune 14 kilometres west-north-west of Amiens and about 5 kilometres south-west of Picquigny, a small town on the Amiens-Abbeville road (N. 3 5 ). In the churchyard, some 11 metres south of the south-eastern corner of the church, are the graves of two soldiers of the United Kingdom forces.
Burial Details
3601099 Private Joseph Charlton, 4th Bn. Border Regiment, died 24th May 1940.
3599370 Private James William Mackereth, 4th Bn. Border Regiment, died 24th May 1940, aged 23. Son of Joseph and Susan Mackereth, of Kendal, Westmorland. His headstone bears the inscription "He Died That We Might Be Free"
