PONT-RÉMY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.05358, Longitude: 1.91296
Location Information
Pont-Rémy is a village and commune on the right (north) bank of the river Somme 8 kilometres south-east of Abbeville, on the N1 road to Poix, Beauvais and Paris. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the village, south of the D.112 road to the neighbouring village of Cocquerel. Just east of the war memorial within the cemetery are the graves of three British soldiers, one of whom is not identified.
Burial Details
7888136 Corporal Robert Browning Burroughs, Mentioned in Despatches, 4th Royal Tank Regiment, R. A. C. Died 1st June 1940, aged 21. Son of Charles Francis and Muriel Olga Burroughs, of Newent, Gloucestershire.
7882459 Trooper Robert Raglan Chitty, the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps, died 25th May 1940, aged 26. Son of William Edward and Florence Chitty, of Woking, Surrey; husband of Edith Mary Chitty, of Woking.
Pont-Rémy is a village and commune on the right (north) bank of the river Somme 8 kilometres south-east of Abbeville, on the N1 road to Poix, Beauvais and Paris. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the village, south of the D.112 road to the neighbouring village of Cocquerel. Just east of the war memorial within the cemetery are the graves of three British soldiers, one of whom is not identified.
Burial Details
7888136 Corporal Robert Browning Burroughs, Mentioned in Despatches, 4th Royal Tank Regiment, R. A. C. Died 1st June 1940, aged 21. Son of Charles Francis and Muriel Olga Burroughs, of Newent, Gloucestershire.
7882459 Trooper Robert Raglan Chitty, the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps, died 25th May 1940, aged 26. Son of William Edward and Florence Chitty, of Woking, Surrey; husband of Edith Mary Chitty, of Woking.
