NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Noeux-les-Mines
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.
The Communal Cemetery at Noeux-les-Mines was used by the Commonwealth forces (in succession to the French) from June 1915 to August 1917. The earlier burials were carried out by units and field ambulances but in April 1917, the 7th Casualty Clearing Station began to use the cemetery. It contains 980 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. The Extension was begun in August 1917 and used until December 1918, chiefly by the 6th and 7th Casualty Clearing Stations.
Shot at Dawn:
Private L. D. Elford, 7/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, executed for desertion 11/10/1918, plot 5. A. 19.
Casualty Details: UK 232, Canada 71, South Africa 1, Germany 12, Total Burials: 316
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Pictures courtesy of Elizabeth Littlebury, niece of Alec Brand. |
240106 Private Alexander Mitchell Brand 4th/5th Bn. The Black Watch (Angus and Dundee) 26/08/1918, aged 22. Plot IV. C. 19.
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Alec Brand with his daughters Agnes and Evelyn
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Private Brand's grave within the cemetery |
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