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CHAPEL CORNER CEMETERY

​Sauchy-Lestrée
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Pas De Calais

​France


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.

GPS CO-Ordinates
Longitude: 3.11525
Latitude: 50.22114


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-Lestree 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.

Chapel Corner Cemetery contains 178 First World War burials, 28 of which are unidentified.

Total Burials: 178.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 103, Canada 47. Total 150.

The cemetery was designed by G H Goldsmith.
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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.


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460068 Corporal
Samuel Goodland
44th Bn. Canadian Infantry
4th September 1918
Row A. 21.
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133225 Private
Victor Greaves
11th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (Formerly 36398 Yorkshire Light Infantry)
4th October 1918, aged 20.
Plot F. 17.


Son of Mr J. H. Greaves, of 36, Lime St., Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.


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-in-Ashfield, 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


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40106 Private
Harold Nuttall
9th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
30th September 1918
​Row C. 22.


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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)

NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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Sauchy-Lestrée Communal Cemetery
Sauchy-Cauchy Communal Cemetery
Sauchy-Cauchy Communal Cemetery Extension

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