AWOINGT BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.15924, Longitude: 3.28507
Location Information
Awoingt is a village some 3 Kms east-south-east of Cambrai and a little south of the main straight road, the N43, from Cambrai to Le Cateau.
Travel along the N43 to the roundabout at the junction of this road and the D157. At this junction is the first sign for the Cemetery. Turn right along the D157 and travel approximately 300 metres then turn left along a narrow road. The Cemetery lies 125 metres along this road on the left.
Historical Information
Awoingt British Cemetery was begun in the latter half of October 1918 and used until the middle of December; the village had been captured on 9/10 October. By 28 October, the 38th, 45th and 59th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted in the neighbourhood, and the great majority of the burials were made from those hospitals, but 16 graves in Plot III, Row H, and Plot V, were brought in after the Armistice from the country immediately surrounding the village.
Awoingt British Cemetery contains 653 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War, including a special memorial to one casualty whose grave in the cemetery cannot now be found. The cemetery also contains 63 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German.
Total Burials: 716.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 636, Germany 56, New Zealand 15, India 1. Total 708.
The cemetery was designed by Charles Henry Holden & Captain Wilfred Clement Von Berg, MC
Major
Charles Percy Lionel Balcombe, M. C. and Bar
11th Field Company, Royal Engineers
29th October 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. F. 11.
Son of Stephen B. Balcombe; husband of A. D. Balcombe, of The Grey House, Camborne, Cornwall. Student of Camborne School of Mines, and an Old Felstedian.
Charles Percy Lionel Balcombe, M. C. and Bar
11th Field Company, Royal Engineers
29th October 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. F. 11.
Son of Stephen B. Balcombe; husband of A. D. Balcombe, of The Grey House, Camborne, Cornwall. Student of Camborne School of Mines, and an Old Felstedian.
235042 Gunner
Clement George Hawes
"C" Battery, 76th Brigade,Royal Field Artillery
Died of Pneumonia, 5th November 1918, aged 20.
Plot III. E. 2.
Son of Walter and Maude Hawes, of Glebe Farm, Barton Bendish, King's Lynn. Native of Methwold. Norfolk.
Picture courtesy of Ian White, great nephew of this soldier
Clement George Hawes
"C" Battery, 76th Brigade,Royal Field Artillery
Died of Pneumonia, 5th November 1918, aged 20.
Plot III. E. 2.
Son of Walter and Maude Hawes, of Glebe Farm, Barton Bendish, King's Lynn. Native of Methwold. Norfolk.
Picture courtesy of Ian White, great nephew of this soldier
53204 Private
William Jones
9th Bn. Cheshire Regiment
10th November 1918, aged 27.
Plot III. D. 17.
Formerly 69535 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, enlisted 27th July, 1917 at Wrexham, Denbighshire, North Wales. Born at Tyn-Y-Pwll, Cerrigydrudion.
Picture courtesy of great-granddaughter, Sandra Gratton
William Jones
9th Bn. Cheshire Regiment
10th November 1918, aged 27.
Plot III. D. 17.
Formerly 69535 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, enlisted 27th July, 1917 at Wrexham, Denbighshire, North Wales. Born at Tyn-Y-Pwll, Cerrigydrudion.
Picture courtesy of great-granddaughter, Sandra Gratton
40568 Private
Arthur Daniel Jude
7th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
7th November 1918, aged 29.
Plot III. G. 7.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jude, of 38, Carlyle Rd., Cambridge.
Arthur Daniel Jude
7th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
7th November 1918, aged 29.
Plot III. G. 7.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jude, of 38, Carlyle Rd., Cambridge.
Lieutenant
William George Gresham Leveson Gower
3rd Company, 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
9th October 1918, aged 35.
Plot III. H. 1.
Son of Arthur Francis Gresham Leveson Gower and Caroline Frederica Leveson Gower (nee Foljambe), of Hadleigh House, Windsor.
His headstone bears the inscription "I Have Fought A Good Fight I Have Finished My Course I Have Kept The Faith"
William George Gresham Leveson Gower
3rd Company, 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
9th October 1918, aged 35.
Plot III. H. 1.
Son of Arthur Francis Gresham Leveson Gower and Caroline Frederica Leveson Gower (nee Foljambe), of Hadleigh House, Windsor.
His headstone bears the inscription "I Have Fought A Good Fight I Have Finished My Course I Have Kept The Faith"
95847 Private
David Henry Williams
4th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
26th October 1918, aged 19.
Plot I. F. 9.
Son of Eliseus and Ann Williams, of 6, North Terrace, Criccieth, Carnarvon.
His headstone bears the inscription "EI HOFF ADNOD "IESU GRIST, DDOE A HEDDYW YR UN, AC YN DRAGYWYDD" HEB. XIII. ADNOD VIII"
David Henry Williams
4th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
26th October 1918, aged 19.
Plot I. F. 9.
Son of Eliseus and Ann Williams, of 6, North Terrace, Criccieth, Carnarvon.
His headstone bears the inscription "EI HOFF ADNOD "IESU GRIST, DDOE A HEDDYW YR UN, AC YN DRAGYWYDD" HEB. XIII. ADNOD VIII"
