The Western Front Today - French National Cemetery, St Charles Potyze
The French National Cemetery at St Charles Potyze holds 3,478 individual graves plus a mass grave for 600 unknown soldiers, the latter at the rear of the cemetery.
Film Footage of St Charles de Potyze
References:
Before Endeavours Fade, Rose E.B. Coombs, After the Battle 1994
Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Somme, Leo Cooper 2000
In preparation for the Battle of the Somme, the British launched a seven-day artillery bombardment in which 1,500 guns fired 1.6 million rounds.
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