BLEUE-MAISON MILITARY CEMETERY
Eperlecques
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Eperlecques is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. Bleue Maison is a hamlet between Eperlecques and Watten, two villages to the north-west of St Omer in the Pas-de-Calais.
From the junction on the main road between St Omer and Dunkerque and the D207, head west on the D207. After 500 metres turn left onto the Rue l'Estabergue. This road leads directly to the Bleue Maison Military Cemetery.
Visiting Information
The register is available in the Mairie from Monday to Friday from 8.00 to 12.00 and 13.30 to 17.30
Historical Information
The Military Cemetery was made in May, 1918-April, 1919, mainly by the four Casualty Clearing Stations posted at Watten in April-October, 1918; and after the Armistice a number of graves were brought into it from Mardyck and Oye Churchyards; three American graves have been removed.
There are now 60, 1914-18 and 1 unidentified burial of 1939-45 war commemorated in this site.
The cemetery covers an area of 280 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
Six United Kingdom soldiers were buried in MARDYCK CHURCHYARD in July-September, 1917, and six just outside it in September and October, 1917.
OYE CHURCHYARD contained the graves of nine French soldiers, two Belgian, and one from the United Kingdom who died in August, 1919.
There was one 1939-1945 War burial, a solider from the United Kingdom, who is not identified.
Casualty Details: UK 59, Canada 1, Total Burials: 60
Eperlecques is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. Bleue Maison is a hamlet between Eperlecques and Watten, two villages to the north-west of St Omer in the Pas-de-Calais.
From the junction on the main road between St Omer and Dunkerque and the D207, head west on the D207. After 500 metres turn left onto the Rue l'Estabergue. This road leads directly to the Bleue Maison Military Cemetery.
Visiting Information
The register is available in the Mairie from Monday to Friday from 8.00 to 12.00 and 13.30 to 17.30
Historical Information
The Military Cemetery was made in May, 1918-April, 1919, mainly by the four Casualty Clearing Stations posted at Watten in April-October, 1918; and after the Armistice a number of graves were brought into it from Mardyck and Oye Churchyards; three American graves have been removed.
There are now 60, 1914-18 and 1 unidentified burial of 1939-45 war commemorated in this site.
The cemetery covers an area of 280 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
Six United Kingdom soldiers were buried in MARDYCK CHURCHYARD in July-September, 1917, and six just outside it in September and October, 1917.
OYE CHURCHYARD contained the graves of nine French soldiers, two Belgian, and one from the United Kingdom who died in August, 1919.
There was one 1939-1945 War burial, a solider from the United Kingdom, who is not identified.
Casualty Details: UK 59, Canada 1, Total Burials: 60
Captain
Ronald Newton Caws, M. C.
Adjt. 10th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
31st July 1917, aged 27.
Row A. 37.
Son of Capt. Silas Newton Caws, J.P. and Margaret Jane Caws, of Nettlestone, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Ronald Newton Caws, M. C.
Adjt. 10th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
31st July 1917, aged 27.
Row A. 37.
Son of Capt. Silas Newton Caws, J.P. and Margaret Jane Caws, of Nettlestone, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
E/7275 Private
Edward Ernest Setchfield
No.2. Mobile Vet. Sect. Army Veterinary Corps
19th September 1917, aged 37.
Plot A. 38.
Husband of Rose Setchfield, of 40, Elizabeth Terrace, New Walsoken. Wisbech.
Edward Ernest Setchfield
No.2. Mobile Vet. Sect. Army Veterinary Corps
19th September 1917, aged 37.
Plot A. 38.
Husband of Rose Setchfield, of 40, Elizabeth Terrace, New Walsoken. Wisbech.
