FIVE POINTS CEMETERY
Lechelle
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Lechelle is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres south-east of Bapaume, and Five Points Cemetery is one kilometre south-east of the village.
Historical Information
Lechelle was captured for the second time early in September, 1918, and the cemetery was made by the 53rd Field Ambulance and the 18th Casualty Clearing Station, which were posted near the site. (The origin of the name is not known with certainty.) It was used until the following month.
In 1934 the grave of an unidentified British soldier was concentrated into this cemetery from LIERAMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY.
There are now over 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified.
The cemetery covers an area of 482 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall.
Total Burials: 101.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 97, India 1. Total 98.
Captain
Keith Andrews Brown
"A" Coy. 1st Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
22nd September 1918, aged 22.
Row C. 22.
Son of George Andrews Brown and A. A. Brown, of 18, Croham Park Avenue, Croydon, Surrey. Native of Dulwich, London.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Love Will Lead Us To Our Loved Again."
Keith Andrews Brown
"A" Coy. 1st Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
22nd September 1918, aged 22.
Row C. 22.
Son of George Andrews Brown and A. A. Brown, of 18, Croham Park Avenue, Croydon, Surrey. Native of Dulwich, London.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Love Will Lead Us To Our Loved Again."
Major
Edward McCosh, M. C.
9th (Glasgow Hdrs.) Bn. Highland Light Infantry
26th September 1918, aged 27.
Row D. 8.
Son of Andrew Kirkwood McCosh, of Cairnhill, Airdrie.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)
Edward McCosh, M. C.
9th (Glasgow Hdrs.) Bn. Highland Light Infantry
26th September 1918, aged 27.
Row D. 8.
Son of Andrew Kirkwood McCosh, of Cairnhill, Airdrie.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)
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The grave of 2nd Lieutenant Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge, 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers attached to 16th Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action 18th September 1918, and other graves near Lechelle.
© IWM (Q 7733) & © IWM (Q 7734)
© IWM (Q 7733) & © IWM (Q 7734)
76371 Private William Hesford (Served as W. Chadwick), 2nd Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died 15th September 1918, aged 15. Plot B. 13. Born at Roxbury, Mass. Son of William and Emma Hesford, of 81, Boylston St., Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Picture © Nicholas Philpot
War Graves near Lechelle, S.E. of Bapaume. (Now Five Points Cemetery) © IWM (Q 7732)
A notice extolling the virtues of saving stores, outside a salvage dump near Ytres, 2 February 1918. © IWM (Q 8453)
Men of the Chinese Labour Corps unloading duck boards at a railway siding at Ytres, 2 February 1918. © IWM (Q 8448)
