SANDERS KEEP MILITARY CEMETERY
Graincourt-les-Havrincourt
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Graincourt-les-Havrincourt is a village 10 kilometres south west of Cambrai. The Cemetery is signposted at the intersection of the main road from Bapaume to Cambrai (N30) and the Marquion Havrincourt road (D15). 2 kilometres south of the N30 on the D15 towards Havrincourt the Cemetery is signposted to the left where it can be found at the end of a single track leading towards Graincourt.
"Sanders Keep" was a German fortification 2 kilometres South-West of the village, between the Hermies and Havrincourt roads. It was stormed by the Scots Guards on the 27th September, 1918, and after the fight the British and German dead were buried on the battlefield by the Guards Division Burial Officer.
Victoria Cross: Lance Corporal Thomas Norman Jackson, VC, 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards, killed in action 27/09/1918, plot II. D. 4.
Casualty Details: UK 142, Total Burials: 142
 Pictures courtesy of Roger Hardingham grandson of this soldier and son of Kathleen Young. |
23815 Private William Martin Young 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards 27/09/1918 Son of Fanny and the late Edward Martin Young. Husband of Charlotte Fanny Young, and father of three children, Kathleen, William, and Jessie Plot II. A. 6.
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The grave at the end of the war |
Card from the Director General of Grave Registration which accompanied the picture |
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