CROUY-VAUXROT FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Crouy
Aisne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.40131, Longitude: 3.34584
Location Information
Crouy is a village in the Department of the Aisne, 4 kilometres north-east of Soissons on the road to Laon. Crouy-Vauxrot French National Cemetery is west of the village on the road to the hamlet of Vauxrot, which is on the Soissons-Chaury main road.
Historical Information
There are now 50, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly half are unidentified, and special memorials are erected to ten soldiers who are believed to be among them. All were brought in after the Armistice and fell in September and October, 1914.
Bucy-le-Long British Cemetery, 46 metres South-East of La Montagne Farm, contained the graves of 25 British soldiers (mainly of the 2nd Seaforths) who fell September and October, 1914.
Total Burials: 50
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 30.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 20.
World War One Other Nationalities: France 2,991 (1,465 individual graves and 1,476 in Ossuaries)
World War Two Other Nationalities: France 1, Poland 1. Total 2.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Lieutenant Colonel
Sir Evelyn Ridley Bradford, Mentioned in Despatches
Cdg. 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
14th September 1914, aged 45.
Row B. 11.
2nd Baronet. Son of the late Col. Sir Edward Bradford, 1st Bart., and of Lady Bradford (nee Knight); husband of Elsie Clifton, Lady Bradford (nee Brown) of Medstead Manor, Alton, Hants.
Sir Evelyn Ridley Bradford, Mentioned in Despatches
Cdg. 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
14th September 1914, aged 45.
Row B. 11.
2nd Baronet. Son of the late Col. Sir Edward Bradford, 1st Bart., and of Lady Bradford (nee Knight); husband of Elsie Clifton, Lady Bradford (nee Brown) of Medstead Manor, Alton, Hants.
9298 Private
Ernest Fuller
1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment
16th September 1914, aged 19.
Sp. Mem. B. 4.
Son of Arthur and Georgina Fuller, of 3, Ingatestone Terrace, Granville Rd., Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Ernest Fuller
1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment
16th September 1914, aged 19.
Sp. Mem. B. 4.
Son of Arthur and Georgina Fuller, of 3, Ingatestone Terrace, Granville Rd., Cowes, Isle of Wight.
1149 Private
Angus Paterson
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
15th September 1914, aged 18.
Row A. 9.
Son of Kenneth and Chirsty Macdonald Paterson, of Mission House, Geshader, Miavaig, Lewis. Native of Upper Barvas.
Angus Paterson
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
15th September 1914, aged 18.
Row A. 9.
Son of Kenneth and Chirsty Macdonald Paterson, of Mission House, Geshader, Miavaig, Lewis. Native of Upper Barvas.
662 Lance Corporal
William Sutherland
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
24th September 1914, aged 20.
Row B. 13.
Son of Robert and Mary Sutherland, of Camerons Lane, Alness, Ross-shire. Native of Thurso, Caithness.
William Sutherland
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
24th September 1914, aged 20.
Row B. 13.
Son of Robert and Mary Sutherland, of Camerons Lane, Alness, Ross-shire. Native of Thurso, Caithness.
Second Lieutenant
Alexander John Neeve Williamson
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
14th September 1914, aged 26.
Row B. 20.
Son of Mrs. M. N. Williamson, of 84, Cecile Park, Crouch End, London, and the late Mr. R. A. Williamson. Born at Calcutta, India. His mother would add the following inscription to his headstone; "Master at Highgate School "He that loseth his life shall find it""
Alexander John Neeve Williamson
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
14th September 1914, aged 26.
Row B. 20.
Son of Mrs. M. N. Williamson, of 84, Cecile Park, Crouch End, London, and the late Mr. R. A. Williamson. Born at Calcutta, India. His mother would add the following inscription to his headstone; "Master at Highgate School "He that loseth his life shall find it""
German photographer, Lieutenant Schaffer and his orderlies of a German official film detachment, in the streets of Soissons following the capture of the town on 29 May 1918.
© IWM (Q 87926)
