In Memory of
REGINALD STINCHCOMBE
Private
5393
1st/4th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment
who died on
Sunday, 4th February 1917. Age 20.
| Additional Information: |
Reginald Stinchcombe born 1897 Wickwar was son of Robert and
Elizabeth of Sodbury Road, Wickwar. Robert was b.1868 at Horton, son
of Henry and Elizabeth. Henry was b.1841 at Hawkesbury son of Benjamin
Stinchcombe and Mary Howell b.1801.
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Commemorative Information
| Cemetery: |
ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme,
France |
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: |
II. C. 10.
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| Location: |
Assevillers is a village approximately 10
kilometres south-west of Peronne. Assevillers New British Cemetery will
be found at the entrance of the village after crossing the A1 motorway
and the high speed train line.
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| Historical Information: |
Assevillers was taken by the French in the
autumn of 1916, evacuated by the Fifth Army on the 26th March, 1918, and
retaken by the 5th Australian Division on the 28th August, 1918. A
number of cemeteries were made by the French troops at Assevillers, and
in one ("E"), at the West end of the village, 13 soldiers from
the United Kingdom were buried by Field Ambulances in February and
March, 1917; they are now reburied in Fouquescourt British Cemetery.
Assevillers New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice by the
concentration of graves from the battlefields of the Somme and from
other burial grounds. There are over 800, 1914-18 war casualties
commemorated in this site. Of these, two-fifths are unidentified and
special memorials are erected to 25 soldiers and one airman from the
United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special
memorials record the names of nine soldiers and two airmen from the
United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed
by shell fire. The cemetery covers an area of 2,655 square metres and is
enclosed by a stone rubble wall. The following were among the burial
grounds from which British graves were brought to Assevillers New
British Cemetery:- BARLEUX GERMAN CEMETERY, about 365 metres North-East
of Barleux, in which ten Australian soldiers were buried by their
comrades in August and September, 1918. BOUCHAVESNES (or PERONNE ROAD)
GERMAN CEMETERY, between Marrieres Wood and Bouchavesnes, in which seven
South African soldiers and three from the United Kingdom were buried by
the enemy in March, 1918. It was at Marrieres Wood that the South
African Brigade was annihilated on the 24th March, 1918.
ESTREES-DENIECOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, between Estrees and Fay, where two
Australian soldiers were buried by the enemy. FOUCAUCOURT FRENCH
MILITARY CEMETERY, at the South-West corner of the village, where four
soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in 1915 and 1917. HIGHWAY
CEMETERY, CAPPY, a French Military Cemetery midway between Cappy and
Herbecourt, where six men of the R.H.A. and one Australian soldier were
buried in August and September, 1918. HYENCOURT-LE-GRAND GERMAN
CEMETERY, made by the 61st Infantry Regiment on the Chaulnes-Marchelepot
road, where two R.A.F. officers were buried in May, 1918. KIBOKO WOOD
CEMETERY, BIACHES, by a small copse between Biaches and Flaucourt, where
30 United Kingdom soldiers were buried by the 40th Division in February
and March, 1917. All but one belonged to the Royal Warwicks, and twenty
of these to the 1st/6th Battalion. MISERY CHATEAU GERMAN CEMETERY, where
16 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by a German Field
Hospital in March, 1918. P.C. HEDEVAUX FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, 548
metres South of Belloy-en-Santerre, where ten soldiers from the United
Kingdom were buried by their comrades in February and March, 1917. (P.C.
means Poste de Commandement.) PLANTATION CEMETERY, a French Military
Cemetery in the large Orchard 914 metres East of Cappy, where one United
Kingdom soldier was buried in February, 1917, and four Australian in
August and September, 1918. VAUVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, in which four
soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in March, 1918, were reburied.
VERMANDOVILLERS FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, at the West end of the
village, where two United Kingdom soldiers were buried in March, 1917,
by their comrades. |
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