BAILLEULMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Bailleulmont is a village 530 metres south of the main road from Arras to Doullens (N25). The Communal Cemetery is at the south-west end of the village, on the road to La Cauchie (D1); and in the east corner of it, to the right of the entrance, is a plot containing the graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom.
The graves in the British plot were made by Field Ambulances and fighting units in 1916-18. There are now 34, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Bailleulmont is a village 530 metres south of the main road from Arras to Doullens (N25). The Communal Cemetery is at the south-west end of the village, on the road to La Cauchie (D1); and in the east corner of it, to the right of the entrance, is a plot containing the graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom.
The graves in the British plot were made by Field Ambulances and fighting units in 1916-18. There are now 34, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Shot at Dawn
1957 Private William G. Hunt, 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment, executed for desertion 14th November 1916, aged 20. Row A. 7.
10495 Private Albert Ingham, 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment, executed for desertion 1st December 1916, aged 24. Row B. 12. Son of George Edward and Eliza Ann Ingham, of Atherton Cottage, Lower Kersal, Manchester.
(According to Ward & Gibson (p 81), the Commission engraved on the headstone, at the insistence of the deceased’s father, the words: Shot At Dawn. One of the First to Enlist. He had apparently been caught in civilian clothes on board a Swedish ship about to sail from Dieppe. Official records have: ‘Died of wounds’, while his Death Certificate states: ‘Shot by sentence of FGCM for “Desertion” ‘. Source: Babington, pp 120-1). (Courtesy of Nicholas Philpot)
10502 Private Alfred Longshaw, C Company, 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment, executed for desertion 1st December 1916, aged 21. Row B. 13. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Longshaw, of Pendleton; husband of Mary Frances Longshaw, of 21, Milnthorpe St., Pendleton, Manchester.
10686 Private Benjamin O'Connell, 1st Bn. Irish Guards, executed for desertion 8th August 1918, aged 23. Row C. 7. Son of James and Mary O'Connell, of Tinnarath, Foulksmills, Wexford.
1957 Private William G. Hunt, 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment, executed for desertion 14th November 1916, aged 20. Row A. 7.
10495 Private Albert Ingham, 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment, executed for desertion 1st December 1916, aged 24. Row B. 12. Son of George Edward and Eliza Ann Ingham, of Atherton Cottage, Lower Kersal, Manchester.
(According to Ward & Gibson (p 81), the Commission engraved on the headstone, at the insistence of the deceased’s father, the words: Shot At Dawn. One of the First to Enlist. He had apparently been caught in civilian clothes on board a Swedish ship about to sail from Dieppe. Official records have: ‘Died of wounds’, while his Death Certificate states: ‘Shot by sentence of FGCM for “Desertion” ‘. Source: Babington, pp 120-1). (Courtesy of Nicholas Philpot)
10502 Private Alfred Longshaw, C Company, 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment, executed for desertion 1st December 1916, aged 21. Row B. 13. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Longshaw, of Pendleton; husband of Mary Frances Longshaw, of 21, Milnthorpe St., Pendleton, Manchester.
10686 Private Benjamin O'Connell, 1st Bn. Irish Guards, executed for desertion 8th August 1918, aged 23. Row C. 7. Son of James and Mary O'Connell, of Tinnarath, Foulksmills, Wexford.
Picture © Geerhard Joos
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Picture © Geerhard Joos
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Picture © Geerhard Joos
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Picture © Geerhard Joos
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