CHAPEL CORNER CEMETERY
Sauchy-Lestrée
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.22114, Longitude: 3.11525
Location Information
Sauchy-Lestrée is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais and a little north of the road from Arras to Cambrai. Chapel Corner Cemetery is about 0.75 kilometres south-east of the village, at a fork of the road to Epinoy.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.
Historical Information
Sauchy-Lestrée was captured by the 56th (London) Division on 27 September 1918, and the cemetery was made and used by fighting units during the following five weeks. It contained 50 burials at the Armistice, and others were then added from the surrounding battlefields and from the following cemeteries:-
EPINOY ROAD CEMETERY, EPINOY, was on the road from Sauchy-Lestrée to Epinoy, just West of the point where it crosses the road from Sauchy-Cauchy to Haynecourt. It was made by fighting units, and it contained the graves of 27 soldiers (mainly 2nd Yorkshire Regiment) and one airman from the United Kingdom and four soldiers from Canada, all of whom fell between the 26th September and the 14th October, 1918.
LECLUSE CRUCIFIX CEMETERY was on the Southern outskirts of Lecluse village, and it contained the graves of 16 Canadian soldiers who fell in October, 1918.
The cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
Chapel Corner Cemetery contains 178 First World War burials, 29 of which are unidentified.
Total Burials: 178.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 102, Canada 47. Total 149.
Unidentified Casualties: Canada 15, United Kingdom 14, Unknown 2. Total 29.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
1045832 Private
Arthur Bailey Aitken
15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 19.
Row D. 2.
Son of John and Eliza Aitken, of 170, Bruce St., London, Ontario.
Arthur Bailey Aitken
15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 19.
Row D. 2.
Son of John and Eliza Aitken, of 170, Bruce St., London, Ontario.
654491 Corporal
James Howard Coultes
47th Bn. Canadian Infantry
18th October 1918, aged 20.
Row E. 12.
Son of G. W. and the late Elizabeth Coultes.
James Howard Coultes
47th Bn. Canadian Infantry
18th October 1918, aged 20.
Row E. 12.
Son of G. W. and the late Elizabeth Coultes.
27527 Private
Harris Fox
2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
29th September 1918.
Row D. 24.
Harris Fox
2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
29th September 1918.
Row D. 24.
460068 Corporal
Samuel Goodland
44th Bn. Canadian Infantry
4th September 1918
Row A. 21.
Samuel Goodland
44th Bn. Canadian Infantry
4th September 1918
Row A. 21.
133225 Private
Victor Greaves
11th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (Formerly 36398 Yorkshire Light Infantry)
4th October 1918, aged 20.
Row. 17.
Son of Mr J. H. Greaves, of 36, Lime St., Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
His headstone bears the inscription "God's Will Be Done It's Hard To Say When Those We Loved Are Called Away"
Victor Greaves was the son of John and Mary Jane of 36 Lime Street, Sutton-iAshfield, Nottinghamshire. Prior to enlistment he worked at the Mansfield Shoe Company, He died on 4th October 1918 as a result of heavy bombing whilst on sentry duty.
Picture and information courtesy of Lynne Weston
Victor Greaves
11th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (Formerly 36398 Yorkshire Light Infantry)
4th October 1918, aged 20.
Row. 17.
Son of Mr J. H. Greaves, of 36, Lime St., Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
His headstone bears the inscription "God's Will Be Done It's Hard To Say When Those We Loved Are Called Away"
Victor Greaves was the son of John and Mary Jane of 36 Lime Street, Sutton-iAshfield, Nottinghamshire. Prior to enlistment he worked at the Mansfield Shoe Company, He died on 4th October 1918 as a result of heavy bombing whilst on sentry duty.
Picture and information courtesy of Lynne Weston
1009208 Private
Thomas Henry Hood
46th Bn. Canadian Infantry
4th September 1918, aged 33.
Row G. 11.
Henry was farming when he enlisted at Wolseley, Saskatchewan early in 1916, leaving a fiancee Harriet Emma Gerry at Indian Head. He was killed in action on the Drocourt-Quéant line. He was the brother of William Charles Hood.
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Thomas Henry Hood
46th Bn. Canadian Infantry
4th September 1918, aged 33.
Row G. 11.
Henry was farming when he enlisted at Wolseley, Saskatchewan early in 1916, leaving a fiancee Harriet Emma Gerry at Indian Head. He was killed in action on the Drocourt-Quéant line. He was the brother of William Charles Hood.
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629980 Private
Joseph Wesley McMullen
47th Bn. Canadian Infantry
18th October 1918, aged 20.
Row E. 14.
Son of Mrs. A. J. McMullen, of Vernon, British Columbia.
Shortly after his 47th Battalion reached Fressain the enemy opened up shell fire on the town, and as the Communication section to which he belonged was about to proceed to a more sheltered position he was struck in the stomach by a small piece of shrapnel. He died a few minutes later, though everything possible was done for him.
Joseph Wesley McMullen
47th Bn. Canadian Infantry
18th October 1918, aged 20.
Row E. 14.
Son of Mrs. A. J. McMullen, of Vernon, British Columbia.
Shortly after his 47th Battalion reached Fressain the enemy opened up shell fire on the town, and as the Communication section to which he belonged was about to proceed to a more sheltered position he was struck in the stomach by a small piece of shrapnel. He died a few minutes later, though everything possible was done for him.
525135 Private
Arthur James Morgan
7th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918.
Row C. 31.
Arthur James Morgan
7th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918.
Row C. 31.
Captain
Sterndale Joseph Murphy, M. C.
3rd Bn. Canadian Infantry
14th October 1918.
Row J. 13.
Son of John and Anna Murphy. Married to Monica in 1913, Toronto, Canada.
Sterndale Joseph Murphy, M. C.
3rd Bn. Canadian Infantry
14th October 1918.
Row J. 13.
Son of John and Anna Murphy. Married to Monica in 1913, Toronto, Canada.
40106 Private
Harold Nuttall
9th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
30th September 1918
Row C. 22.
Harold Nuttall
9th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
30th September 1918
Row C. 22.
Capture of Cambrai by the British 57th Division. Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment wearing pickelhaubes which they found whilst on patrol in Cambrai, 9 October 1918. © IWM (Q 11367)
