Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery
- Country France
- Total identified casualties 403 Find these casualties
- Region Somme
- Identified casualties from First & Second World War
- GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.80572, Longitude: 2.10441
PLEASE NOTE
Essential maintenance work are carried out on the boundary wall. Nine headstones were moved from works area to protect them. They are positioned on either side of the Cross of Sacrifice. These are the headstones for:
F. Poole
J.H. Pate
C.R. Dalgliesh
J. Cranston
F. Caldicott
A. Tait
R.J. Ward
W. Derbyshire
G. Kitching
Location information
Namps-au-Val is a village in the Department of the Somme approximately 16 kilometres south-west of Amiens. The British Cemetery is between the village and the railway station.
History information
At the end of March 1918, when the German offensive in Picardy began, the 41st, 50th and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Namps-au-Val, remaining until the middle of April. Almost all the burials in the cemetery were carried out by them, but nine graves in Plot II, Row D, were brought after the Armistice from CONTY FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY. The cemetery contains 408 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and one from the Second World War. There are also 16 French war graves. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.