CHAMBRECY BRITISH CEMETERY
Marne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.18386, Longitude: 3.83425
Image above © Carl Liversage @carl_liversage
Location Information
Chambrecy is a commune 19 kilometres west of Reims.
The cemetery can be reached via the RD980 road from Reims to Chateau Thierry. After about twenty minutes from leaving the outskirts of Reims it is necessary to take the second exit (straight on) at a roundabout. The road curves up an incline with an Italian cemetery on the right hand side of the road. After 300 metres, Chambrecy British Cemetery is visible on the right hand side of the road just before entering the village of Chambrecy. Parking is difficult on this fast road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible, but may be by alternative entrance.
Historical Information
The cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the surrounding battlefields and from COURLANDON Hospital (French Military) Cemetery.
There are 436, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these,191 are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to a British N.C.O. buried at Courlandon. The graves are almost all of May/July, 1918, and largely of the 19th (Western) and 51st (Highland) Divisions.
The cemetery covers an area of 1,579 square metres and is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & John Reginald Truelove
Total Burials: 436.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 244, India 1. Total 245.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 191.
Dedications
Daniel Luke, 6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) KIA 27th July 1918, is buried in plot VII. C. 1.
Remembered by his Great Grandson Andrew Luke.
Chambrecy is a commune 19 kilometres west of Reims.
The cemetery can be reached via the RD980 road from Reims to Chateau Thierry. After about twenty minutes from leaving the outskirts of Reims it is necessary to take the second exit (straight on) at a roundabout. The road curves up an incline with an Italian cemetery on the right hand side of the road. After 300 metres, Chambrecy British Cemetery is visible on the right hand side of the road just before entering the village of Chambrecy. Parking is difficult on this fast road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible, but may be by alternative entrance.
Historical Information
The cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the surrounding battlefields and from COURLANDON Hospital (French Military) Cemetery.
There are 436, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these,191 are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to a British N.C.O. buried at Courlandon. The graves are almost all of May/July, 1918, and largely of the 19th (Western) and 51st (Highland) Divisions.
The cemetery covers an area of 1,579 square metres and is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & John Reginald Truelove
Total Burials: 436.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 244, India 1. Total 245.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 191.
Dedications
Daniel Luke, 6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) KIA 27th July 1918, is buried in plot VII. C. 1.
Remembered by his Great Grandson Andrew Luke.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
67295 Private
William Clarke
1st/5th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
28th July 1918
Plot IV. B. 2.
William Clarke
1st/5th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
28th July 1918
Plot IV. B. 2.
Lieutenant Colonel
Lancelot Colin William Deane, D S O, M C, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
Commanding 6th Bn. South Wales Borderers
29th May 1918, aged 26.
Plot VI. A. 1.
Only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Deane, of "Beauvoir," Kotagiri, Nilgiris, Southern India.
Lancelot Colin William Deane, D S O, M C, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
Commanding 6th Bn. South Wales Borderers
29th May 1918, aged 26.
Plot VI. A. 1.
Only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Deane, of "Beauvoir," Kotagiri, Nilgiris, Southern India.
261006 Private
Heber Hayman
8th Bn. Gloucestershire regiment
31st May 1918
Plot IV. D. 9.
Heber Hayman
8th Bn. Gloucestershire regiment
31st May 1918
Plot IV. D. 9.
242837 Private
Edward Gascoigne Hipkin
5th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
20th July 1918, aged 22.
Plot III. B. 1.
Son of Edward and Elizabeth Hipkin, of Sturton-le-Steeple, Retford, Notts.
Edward Gascoigne Hipkin
5th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
20th July 1918, aged 22.
Plot III. B. 1.
Son of Edward and Elizabeth Hipkin, of Sturton-le-Steeple, Retford, Notts.
Battle of Tardenois. Soldier of the 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (62nd Division) looking at the recent graves of three Germans. Bois de Reims, 24 July 1918. © IWM (Q 11091)
Image above © Carl Liversage @carl_liversage
