Bois-Des-Angles British Cemetery, Nord, France

BOIS-DES-ANGLES BRITISH CEMETERY

Crevecoeur-sur-L'Éscaut

Nord

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.05134, Longitude: 3.28477

Location Information

Villers Outreaux is a 20 kilometres north of St Quentin and 16 kilometres south of Cambrai.

Bois-Des-Angles Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of Villers Outreaux on the D76 which connects Villers Outreaux with Lesdain. It is signposted from the crossroads D16, D76 as you enter or leave the town on its western side.

Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.

Historical Information

Crevecoeur-sur-L'Escaut was captured by the New Zealand and 3rd Divisions on the 1st October, 1918.

The Cemetery was made by the 21st Division in the middle of October, 1918; and after the Armistice it was enlarged by the concentration of graves from the following two cemeteries:-

BEL-AISE FARM CEMETERY, CREVECOEUR-SUR-L'ESCAUT, was at the "Fonds de Belle Aise", 460 metres West of Belle-Aise Farm. It contained the graves of 52 soldiers of the 37th Division, all but one of whom fell on the 8th October, 1918.

MORTHO WOOD CEMETERY, CREVECOEUR-SUR-L'ESCAUT, was on the East side of the Bois de Mortho, West of Villers-Outreau; and in it were buried 74 Welsh soldiers and one man of the Tank Corps, who fell on or about the 8th October, 1918.

There are now 177, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. A special memorial records the name of one United Kingdom soldier, buried in Bel-Aise Farm Cemetery, whose grave could not be found.

The Cemetery covers an area of 506 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.

The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw

Total Burials: 177.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 168. Total 168.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 9.

23642 Private
Horace Allsop
13th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
8th October 1918
Plot I. A. 5.

205151 Private
Frederick Hylton Cooper
14th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
8th October 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. B. 18.

Son of Frederick Tobias Cooper and Mary Jane Smith Cooper, of IIA, Grange Rd., West Kirby, Cheshire.

Second Lieutenant
John Walter Hughes
3rd Bn. attached to 1st Bn. Essex Regiment
8th October 1918, aged 29.
Plot I. C. 11.

Inscription "Tenax Et Fidelis"

Son of the late Willoughby R. Hughes, C.E., and of A. M. Hughes (stepmother), of "Lynton," Hampden Park, Eastbourne. Sussex.

87487 Private
Griffith Owen Jones
"B" Company, 16th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
8th October 1918, aged 25.
Plot I. B. 4.

Inscription "Christ Also Suffered For Us"

Son of Griffith and Elizabeth Jones, of 10, Gwenfro Terrace, Tan-Y-Fron, Wrexham.

58445 Private
Ira Matthews
14th Bn. Welsh Regiment
8th October 1918, aged 19.
Plot I. B. 39.

Inscription "Sleep On Dear Son And Take Your Rest For All Of Us You Did Your Best"

Son of William and Hannah C. Matthews, of Rhymney Villa, Pengam, Mon.

69490 Private
Wifred Baker Megginson
10th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
8th October 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. C. 37.

Inscription "Peace Perfect Peace"

Son of Baker and Emma Megginson, of Atherstone, Warwickshire.