Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery
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Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery is a war grave
for mainly Commonwealth
soldiers who died in the The First World War. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in the 1920s and contains the bodies of 2,022 people http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2000081. It lies in countryside east of Amiens
in the Somme
region of France
at 50.04463°N 2.989939°W.
War grave
A war grave is a burial place for soldiers or civilians who died during military campaigns or operations. The term does not only apply to graves: ships sunk during wartime are often considered to be war graves, as are military aircraft that crash into water...
for mainly Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
soldiers who died in the The First World War. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in the 1920s and contains the bodies of 2,022 people http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2000081. It lies in countryside east of Amiens
Amiens
Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy...
in the Somme
Somme
Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It is part of the Picardy region of France....
region of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
at 50.04463°N 2.989939°W.