BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
Bailleul
Nord
France
General Directions: Bailleul is a large town in France, near the Belgian border, 14.5 kilometres south-west of Ieper and on the main road from St. Omer to Lille. From the Grand place, take the Ieper road and 400 metres along this road is a sign indicating the direction of the cemetery. Turn down the right into a small road and follow for approximately 400 metres, the cemetery is on the right.
Bailleul was occupied on 14 October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre, with the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations quartered in it for considerable periods. It was a corps headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled, and after the Battle of Bailleul (13-15 April 1918), it fell into German hands and was not retaken until 30 August 1918. The earliest Commonwealth burials at Bailleul were made at the east end of the communal cemetery and in April 1915, when the space available had been filled, the extension was opened on the east side of the cemetery. The extension was used until April 1918, and again in September, and after the Armistice graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields.
Shot at Dawn: Private W W Roberts, 4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, executed for desertion on 29/05/1916, plot 2. B. 110. (Ext) Lance Corporal W A Moon, 11th Bn. Cheshire Regiment, executed for desertion on 21/11/1916, plot 3. A. 219. (Ext) Private J Rogers, 2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment, executed for desertion on 09/03/1917, plot 3. A. 3.
Casualty Details: (Communal) UK 585, Canada 21, India 4, Total Burials: 610 (Commonwealth only) (Extension) UK 3457, Canada 291, Australia 398, New Zealand 252, South Africa 1, India 5, Total Burials: 4404 (Commonwealth only)
A/449 Private
Francis John Duckett
1st Bn. Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Died of wounds 16/03/1916
aged 28.
Son of John J. and M. A. Duckett, of 39, Chaddock St., Preston, England.
Plot II. C. 201
Picture courtesy of John Garlington
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108084 Private James Bartlett 2nd Bn. Canadian Mounted Rifles. Died of wounds 05/02/1916 Plot II. C. 114 Pictures courtesy of Gary Westhora, Mission, British Columbia |
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14/4478 Rifleman
Albert Edward Cox
14th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles
21/04/1917, aged 19.
Son of Fred and Annie Cox, of 123, Whitehorse Rd., Croydon, Surrey.
Plot III. B. 95.
8442 Serjeant
Robert Leggat
9th Bn. Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles)
30/03/1916
Plot II. B. 46
Robbie was a Serjeant in the 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and was a professional solder having enlisted prior to 1906. He was killed on 29 or 30 March 1916 while leading his men when his hand grenade blew up in his hand.
His grave is at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
Picture courtesy of great niece, Maureen Drake
817 Private
William Stanley Allars
39th Bn. Australian Infantry,
A. I. F.
02/05/1917, aged 21.
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord)
Son of Alfred Charles and Emily Ann Allars. Native of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Plot III. B. 25.
Survived by
his brother Sydney George Allars Private 816 also wounded. 39th Bn.
Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
Brothers who served together
Picture courtesy of Elaine Wenn
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