Your tour of the Somme Battlefields starts in the village of Foncquevillers about 20 kilometres north of Albert, the local market town.

Find the Post Ofice - La Poste - and start as if leaving the Post Office. Directly ahead is the Rue Bacon ( rue is French for street). Drive/walk/cycle up this road or lane and after about .2 miles you will arrive at Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, on your left.

Within 800 yards of the 1st July 1916 front line trenches this cemetery contains several intersting burials - amongst which is that of Capt. J.L. Green, Medical Officer of 1/5th Sherwoods. It is in the right of the entrance and third row back. He was killed whilst bringing in wounded officers on 1st July 1916.

In row C of Plot 2 is the grave of Private Thomas Palmer, killed in February 1917. There is a touching epithet engraved on his headstone "will some kind hand in a foreign land place a flower on my sons grave".

After leaving this cemetery turn right, back down to the Rue Bacon and return to the X roads at La Poste. Go straight across onto the D6, signposted to Puiseaux, Bapaume and Gommecourt. About 600 yards, on the right, and after having left the village of Foncquevillers, is Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery.