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BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY

​Bailleulval
​​​
Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.22463, Longitude: 2.60344

Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
© Johan Pauwels
Location Information

Bailleulval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 13 Kms south-west of Arras, and the Cemetery is 1 Km west of the village on the north side of the main road from Arras to Doullens (N25).


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to site possible - maybe by alternative entrance.


Historical Information

The cemetery was made in March 1918 by the 7th, 20th and 43rd Casualty Clearing Stations, but when the German advance began at the end of that month, their place was taken by field ambulances of the units fighting on the Arras front, notably the 31st Division and the Canadian Corps. In August and September, when the Germans had been pushed back, the 45th and 46th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted to the neighbourhood. 

Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery contains 688 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also 55 German war graves.

Total Burials: 743.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 636, Germany 54, Canada 48. Total 738.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 4, Germany 1. Total 5.

The cemetery was designed by Charles Holden and
W. H. Cowlishaw
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​Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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235937 Lance Corporal
Frank Addison
16th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
5th April 1918.
Plot
 II. C. 5

Picture
L/1649 Gunner
Thomas Harold Burton
"C" Coy. 178th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
25th March 1918, aged 22.
Plot I. C. 25.

Native of Nottingham. Only son of Thomas and Fanny Burton, of 50, Ramsey St., Scarborough.


Picture
Captain
Rupert Caldwell Butler Fellowes
4th Company, 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
21st August 1918, aged 24.
Plot III. A. 30.

Son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas and of Lady Fellowes, of "Woodfield," Stevenage, Herts.

Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery - Hearn
17638 Serjeant 
James William Hearn, M. M. and Bar
1st Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
17th May 1918, aged 29.
Plot II. D. 10

Son of James and Jessie Amelia Hearn of 34 Quadrant St., Canning Town, London.

Pictures courtesy of Barry Hearn, great nephew of this soldier

Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery - Kelbie
281052 Private
Michael Drummond Kelbie
"D" Coy. 1st/7th Bn. Highland Light Infantry
25th August 1918, aged 20.
Plot III. E. 13.

Son of Peter and Mary Kelbie, of 16, Forrest St., Mile End, Glasgow. Native of Dunfermline.


Pictures courtesy of Keith Holland, great nephew of this soldier

Picture
104576 Lance Corporal
G. A. Lee, M. M.
228th Field Company, Royal Engineers
26th March 1918, aged 27.
Plot I. D. 9.

Born at Wheldon, Castleford. Son of Nicholas and Mary Lee, of Oxspring Lodge, Penistone, Sheffield.

Picture
Captain
John Keith Mews
1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers
24th August 1918, aged 23.
Plot 
III. E. 19.

Son of John and Ethel Mews, of 90 , Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London.

Picture
105253 Private
F. J. Oborne
2nd Squadron, Machine Gun Corps, (Cavalry)
​21st August 1918.
Plot III. A. 12.

Pictures courtesy of Alan Hawkins (Grandson)




Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery - Oborne
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A member of the 55th Divisional Concert Party at Gouy-on-Artois conversing with two soldiers of the British Army, 14th April 1916. © IWM Q 511
Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
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Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
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October 1918; The fate of a German Machine Gunner, near the Canal-du-Nord. © IWM CO 3320
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Officers exercising their chargers near Arras, 18th May 1917. © IWM Q 2155
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Fatigue party of the Royal Garrison Artillery (see Q 8674) eating. Ransart, 7 April 1918. © IWM Q 8675
Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
Pre - 1936 ©CWGC
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June 1954 - ©CWGC
Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery
June 1954 - ©CWGC

Nearby Cemeteries

Bailleulmont Communal Cemetery
Bailleulval Communal Cemetery
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension


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