In Memory of

R B THEAKER

Private
22391
12th Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers
who died on
Tuesday, 23rd May 1916.


Commemorative Information

Cemetery: BOISGUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Seine-Maritime, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
I. E. 9A.
Location: Boisguillaume is a district about 5 kilometres north-east of Rouen on the main road to Neufchatel. Follow the road to Neufchatel/Abbeville on N.28 and turn left into Rue R J Lambert then turn twice right after the church into Rue De La Mare Des Champs. The Communal Cemetery which contains the two First World War plots lies on the left hand side of this road. The first CWGC signpost is on the road to Neufchatel at the street corner - near the Town Hall Mairie.

Historical Information: Two plots in the Communal Cemetery were reserved for British burials from September 1914 to March 1917. They contain 160 double graves. These plots are on the South side of the central French monument, and are surrounded by civilian graves. They are raised above the level of the Cemetery and bounded on three sides by a low retaining wall. The burials took place for the most part from Number 8. General Hospital, which was quartered at Boisguillaume in a large private house and grounds. Twenty-six burials in plot II. are of soldiers killed in a railway accident on the 14th February 1917. There are now over 300, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.