Namps-au-Val British Cemetery CWGC (Нан-Мениль) | war cemetery

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This British Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery lies just north of the village of Namps-au-Val in the Department of the Somme approximately 16 kilometres south-west of Amiens.

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.

Notable amongst its burials is Canadian Gordon Flowerdew who won the Victoria Cross fighting at nearby Moreuil Wood in March of 1918. During the Battle of Moureuil Wood he was mortally wounded and brought to the casualty clearing station at Namps-au-Val, where he died on March 31st, 1918.

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.

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