SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, VILLERS-PLOUICH
UK - 51
UNIDENTIFIED - 3
HISTORY
Sunken Road Cemetery is half-way between the
villages of Villers-Plouich and Beaucamp, on the north side of the sunken road.
It contains the graves of 51 soldiers (and sailors of the Royal Naval Division)
from the United Kingdom who fell in December 1917 (largely on Welsh Ridge), and
in January and September 1918. Of these three are unidentified. The cemetery
covers an area of 307 square yards. It is enclosed on three sides by a low
rubble wall, and planted with crab-apple trees and roses. It stands above the
level of the road, and the villages of Gonnelieu and Gouzeaucourt can be seen
from it.
LOCATION
Villers-Plouich is a village in the Department of
the Nord, 2 kilometres north of Gouzeacourt which is 19 kilometres north-east of
Peronne on the D917 and 16 kilometres south-west of Cambrai (N44/D917). This
small Cemetery is signposted to the left as you pass the Villers Plouich Mairie
on the D56 from direction Gouzeaucourt. It lies 500 metres past this signpost as
you ascend a small unmarked road which eventually would lead to the hamlet
Beaucamp.
GRAVES OF INTEREST
 | Petty Officer H.C.Williamson MM & Bar 189th Trench Mortar Bty RND (A-45) |
- Killed 30th December 1917, aged 21.
