DON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Annoeullin
Nord
France
Location Information
Don is a town and commune in the Department of the Nord, 12 kilometres south-west of Lille.
Leave Don on the D41 heading towards Carvin. Continue past the Hotel de Ville on the left hand side of the main road and over the canal. Take the first right onto Rue d'Egalite and the cemetery will be found straight ahead.
The British graves are in two plots, one on the north side of the Cemetery and the other in the south-west part.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.
Historical Information
Annoeullin was held by the Germans from an early date in the War until shortly before the Armistice.
No.15 Casualty Clearing Station came to Don on the 25th October, 1918, and remained until the 19th January, 1919, and No.32 came at the end of November and left at the end of December. From these two hospitals soldiers were buried in Don Communal Cemetery, and later a number of bodies were brought in from the neighbouring fields.
There are now over 100, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.
The British plots cover an area of 406 square metres and are enclosed by stone curbs.
Casualty Details: UK 125, Canada 1, Australia 1, Total Burials: 127
Don is a town and commune in the Department of the Nord, 12 kilometres south-west of Lille.
Leave Don on the D41 heading towards Carvin. Continue past the Hotel de Ville on the left hand side of the main road and over the canal. Take the first right onto Rue d'Egalite and the cemetery will be found straight ahead.
The British graves are in two plots, one on the north side of the Cemetery and the other in the south-west part.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.
Historical Information
Annoeullin was held by the Germans from an early date in the War until shortly before the Armistice.
No.15 Casualty Clearing Station came to Don on the 25th October, 1918, and remained until the 19th January, 1919, and No.32 came at the end of November and left at the end of December. From these two hospitals soldiers were buried in Don Communal Cemetery, and later a number of bodies were brought in from the neighbouring fields.
There are now over 100, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.
The British plots cover an area of 406 square metres and are enclosed by stone curbs.
Casualty Details: UK 125, Canada 1, Australia 1, Total Burials: 127
Troops of the 230th Field Ambulance RAMC and the 12th (West Somerset Yeomanry) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, 74th Yeomanry Division at the Regimental Aid Post. Near Carvin, 14 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7165)
M2/073757 Corporal
George Allen
21st. H.Q. Reserve Mechanical Transport Coy. Army Service Corps
28th October 1918
Plot I. A. 41.
Husband of A. E. Allen, of 97, Emmanuel Rd., Hastings.
George Allen
21st. H.Q. Reserve Mechanical Transport Coy. Army Service Corps
28th October 1918
Plot I. A. 41.
Husband of A. E. Allen, of 97, Emmanuel Rd., Hastings.
13843 Private
Frank Bell
1st/9th Bn. Royal Scots
3rd November 1918, aged 26.
Plot I. A. 17.
Son of Robert and Helen Bell, of The Club Rooms, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. Native of Lazonby Carlisle.
His parents added the simple inscription "Till we Meet" to his headstone.
Frank Bell
1st/9th Bn. Royal Scots
3rd November 1918, aged 26.
Plot I. A. 17.
Son of Robert and Helen Bell, of The Club Rooms, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. Native of Lazonby Carlisle.
His parents added the simple inscription "Till we Meet" to his headstone.
918 2nd Corporal
Frederick James Cocks
3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company
4th December 1918, aged 24.
Plot I. B. 9.
Son of Elizabeth Cocks, of 8, Minnie St., Leederville, Western Australia, and the late James Alfred Cocks. Native of Bendigo. Victoria. Accidentally killed.
His headstone has the inscription; "He was loved in life, honoured in death, treasured in memory."
421 Sapper, M. A. Mitchell witnessed the accidental death of Frederick Cocks; (At 1:15pm) "He was shunting and slipped, and a 40 H. P. tractor went over him and he died on his way to the hospital. This was somewhere just outside Lille."
He was admitted to No 15. Casualty Clearing Station but was already dead, his wounds were found to be Shock and haemorrhage, rupture of spleen and almost complete collapse of left lung.
Frederick James Cocks
3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company
4th December 1918, aged 24.
Plot I. B. 9.
Son of Elizabeth Cocks, of 8, Minnie St., Leederville, Western Australia, and the late James Alfred Cocks. Native of Bendigo. Victoria. Accidentally killed.
His headstone has the inscription; "He was loved in life, honoured in death, treasured in memory."
421 Sapper, M. A. Mitchell witnessed the accidental death of Frederick Cocks; (At 1:15pm) "He was shunting and slipped, and a 40 H. P. tractor went over him and he died on his way to the hospital. This was somewhere just outside Lille."
He was admitted to No 15. Casualty Clearing Station but was already dead, his wounds were found to be Shock and haemorrhage, rupture of spleen and almost complete collapse of left lung.
751544 Sapper
Arthur Rudow
5th Bn. Canadian Railway Troops
5th November 1918
Plot I. A. 11.
Arthur Rudow
5th Bn. Canadian Railway Troops
5th November 1918
Plot I. A. 11.
Gunners of the 237th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Near Carvin, 14 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7160)
