BARLY FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Barly is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, some 25 kilometres west-south-west of Arras, north of the main road Arras/Doullens (N25).
The French Military Cemetery is on the road (D8) leading to Bavincourt, approximately 1 kilometre from the village.
Historical InformationThe French Military Cemetery was begun by the French in September, 1915, and used by British Field Ambulances and other units from March, 1916, to May, 1918; and after the Armistice the graves of nine men of the Indian Labour Corps were brought in from isolated positions.
There are now nearly 30, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Identified Casualties 28
Pictures in gallery below © Jean-Claude Graux
Barly is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, some 25 kilometres west-south-west of Arras, north of the main road Arras/Doullens (N25).
The French Military Cemetery is on the road (D8) leading to Bavincourt, approximately 1 kilometre from the village.
Historical InformationThe French Military Cemetery was begun by the French in September, 1915, and used by British Field Ambulances and other units from March, 1916, to May, 1918; and after the Armistice the graves of nine men of the Indian Labour Corps were brought in from isolated positions.
There are now nearly 30, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Identified Casualties 28
Pictures in gallery below © Jean-Claude Graux
Pictures in gallery below © Geerhard Joos
Shot at Dawn
4567 Private Joseph Brennan. 1st/8th King's (Liverpool) Regiment, executed for desertion on 16th July 1916. Plot II. A. 13. Son of Mrs. Josephine Clark, of 29, Whipple St., Pawtucket, Rhodes Island, U.S.A.
3563 Private J. Sloan. 1st /4th King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment executed for desertion on 16th July 1916. Plot II. A. 11. He had been serving in support trenches before being sent to a back area for instruction in bombing with
hand-grenades. There Sloan discarded his equipment & made off. 6 days later in Rouen he was arrested, stating that he had a travel pass for the UK. (Putkowski, p. 93)
4567 Private Joseph Brennan. 1st/8th King's (Liverpool) Regiment, executed for desertion on 16th July 1916. Plot II. A. 13. Son of Mrs. Josephine Clark, of 29, Whipple St., Pawtucket, Rhodes Island, U.S.A.
3563 Private J. Sloan. 1st /4th King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment executed for desertion on 16th July 1916. Plot II. A. 11. He had been serving in support trenches before being sent to a back area for instruction in bombing with
hand-grenades. There Sloan discarded his equipment & made off. 6 days later in Rouen he was arrested, stating that he had a travel pass for the UK. (Putkowski, p. 93)
Picture © Geerhard Joos
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Picture © Geerhard Joos
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