Fricourt is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, five kilometres East of Albert.

On the 30th June, 1916, the village was just within the German front line. It was attacked on the 1st July by the 17th Division and by the end of the day it was caught between that Division on the West, the 21st on the North and the 7th on the South. It was occupied by the 17th Division on the following day. From the 25th March, 1918, to the following 26th August, it was again in enemy hands.

The Cemetery was made by the 17th Division, and the great majority of the dead buried here belonged to that Division.

Fricourt British Cemetery (Bray Road) is just South of the village, on the right-hand side of the road to Bray-sur-Somme and on the North Bank of a small stream. It was made by the 7th East Yorkshire Regiment between the 5th and the 11th July, 1916. It was used until the end of October, and again (for four burials) in 1918. It covers an area of 864 square metres; and it contains the graves of 131 soldiers from the United Kingdom, and one from New Zealand. One of the United kingdom burials, the place of which cannot now be ascertained is represented by a special memorial.

Of the British burials 89 belong to the 7th Yorkshire Regiment, and 59 of these are in the two big graves in the middle of Row A. The battalion erected a granite monument in the cemetery to their dead of the 1st-14th July, 1916.

The Cemetery is enclosed, except on the road side, by a brick wall. It lies below the level of the road.

Number of burials by Unit

Those with awards in this cemetery

Pte. E. Banks M.M., Royal Army Medical Corps, atttd. 1/4th London Field Coy. Royal Engineers. Died 15th Sept. 1916. A1

Gnr. Ernest Barnes M.M., "Z" 21st Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 12th July 1916, aged 23. A.34

Maj. Ronald Henry Greig D.S.O., 54th Field Coy. Royal Engineers. Died 28th Aug. 1916, aged 40. B.3

Sgt. H. Pragnell M.M. 1/3rd London Field Coy. Royal Engineers. Killed in action 15th Sept. 1916. A.2

L/Cpl. G. B. Smith D.C.M., 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards). Died 1st July 1916. Special Memorial D.6

L/Cpl. A. C. Todd M.M., 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards). Died 1st July 1916. Special Memorial D.8

Others buried in this cemetery

2nd Lt. Thomas Firminger. 9th attd. 8th Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.) Died 3rd Sept. 1916 aged 30. A tea planter in Ceylon. Born at New Norfolk, Tasmania. B.20

2nd Lt. Harold Gibson Hornsby. 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards). Killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 28. On the Solicitor's Staff of His Majesty's Customs and Excise. A.29

2nd Lt. Arthur Haddon Kippax. "A" Coy. 7th Bn. East Yorkshire Regt. Killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 23. Educated at Rishworth Grammar School, Rishworth, Halifax. On the staff of "The Daily Chronicle", London. A.25

2nd Lt. Francis Saxon Snell. 8th, attd. 9th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regt. Died 11th July 1916, aged 29. B.A. King's College, Cambridge. B.8

Pte. Stephen Stannard. 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) Died 1st July 1916, aged 43. Served on the North-West Frontier of India. A.24