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Foncquevillers Military Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1915–1918; 1944
Established1915
Location50°08′57″N 02°37′33″E / 50.14917°N 2.62583°E / 50.14917; 2.62583
near 
Bapaume, France
Designed bySir Reginald Blomfield
Total burials658
Unknowns
53
Burials by nation
Allied Powers:
  • United Kingdom: 577
  • New Zealand: 12
  • Australia: 6
  • Canada: 5

France: 1 (civilian)
Germany: 4

Unknown: 53
Burials by war
* First World War: 652
  • Second World War: 5
  • Postwar period: 1 (French)

Foncquevillers Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for military personnel who died on the Western Front during the First World War. It is located in the Pas de Calais region of France. Originally established in 1915 by the French military for its soldiers, it was later used for British personnel. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), there are 648 soldiers of the First World War interred in the cemetery with 53 of them unidentified. Another four graves are for German soldiers of the First World War, while five Canadian airmen who died in the Second World War and a French civilian are also buried in the cemetery.

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