Pont-De-Metz Churchyard

• Country France
• Total identified casualties 21 Find these casualties
• Region Somme
• Identified casualties from First & Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.88234, Longitude: 2.24199

Location information

Pont-de-Metz is a village about 3 kilometres south-west of Amiens on the road to Proix. The British graves in Pont-De-Metz Churchyard are situated in the northern corner.

History information

Pont-de-Metz Churchyard contains 33 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War (13 of them unidentified), all soldiers who died in May 1940, when the Germans broke through to Ameins, in one of the many small delaying actions which helped to gain the time required for the withdrawal of British Expeditionary Force to the Channel ports. There is also one First World War burial in the cemetery.