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Fricourt New Military Cemetery

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Fricourt New Military Cemetery, 4 October 2002. (Ref 0203588) Fricourt New Military Cemetery, 4 October 2002. (Ref 0203588)

Fricourt New Military Cemetery is a little west of the north end of Fricourt on the old German front line.  It comprises four big graves made by the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment after the capture of Fricourt in July 1916 and a few single graves of September 1916. 

Fricourt New Military Cemetery contains a total of 210 graves comprising 208 from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand.  Of the soldiers buried in the big graves, 159 belonged to the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment and 38 to the East Yorkshire Regiment. 

Fricourt New Military Cemetery covers an area of 1,476 square yards.  It is enclosed by a brick wall.  It stands on rising ground, looking south and southwest. 

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Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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