Friday, 10 March 2023

Somme 2023 - Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery

The Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery is located near two villages captured on 1st July 1916 on the opening day of the Anglo-French Somme Offensive.

It contains 7,033 casualties, including 5,362 in individual or collective graves. Four ossuaries contain the remains of 1,671 unknown soldiers. Those casualties includes many colonial soldiers and French Foreign Legion. 

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery 



Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery Entrance

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery Information Board

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery Entrance

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery
French and Colonial Soldiers Headstones

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery
French and Colonial Soldiers Headstones

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery
French Soldier

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery
Colonial Soldier

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery Ossuary

Dompierres-Bequincourt Cemetery Memorial