LE GRAND BEAUMART BRITISH CEMETERY

Steenwerck

Nord

France

General Directions: Steenwerck is a village in the Department of the Nord, on the south-west side of the Armentieres to Bailleul road (D933). The cemetery is located on the south-west side of the village on the D38.

Steenwerck remained untouched for much of the First World War, but on 10 April 1918 it was captured during the German advance and remained in their hands until the beginnig of October. The original cemetery (now Plot I, Rows A to D) was made by fighting units and field ambulances in April and October 1918, and contained 55 graves. It was increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Steenwerck, Nieppe and Armentieres. Among them were 116 Commonwealth graves from Steenwerck German Cemetery, a large burial ground on the Steenwerck-Trois Arbres road.

Shot at Dawn: Lance Corporal W J Irvine, 1st Bn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, executed for desertion 20/04/1915, plot 3. H. 19.

Private J Kershaw, 1st Bn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, executed for desertion, 26/04/1915, plot 3. H. 20.

Casualty Details: UK 552, Canada 1, Total Burials: 553

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13/931 Private

Harry Rowe

1st/5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment

11/04/1918, aged 21.

Son of John S. and Mary E. Rowe, of 17, Milton St., Wombwell, Yorks.

Plot I. E. 14

Picture courtesy of Sydney Rowe Bardsley, nephew of this soldier

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