FOREST COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord
France
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.13853 Longitude: 3.57626
Picture © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Forest (Nord) is a small village on the road (D932) from Le Cateau to Bavay about 3 kilometres from Montay halte. The Communal Cemetery is on the small road to Fontaine-au-Bois and Landrecies, almost on the outskirts of the east side of the village.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
There are now over 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified. All fell in October and November 1918, in the clearing of Forest and the surrounding country. They were buried by the 17th, 33rd and 38th (Welsh) Divisions. Thirteen German graves of October and November 1918, were later removed from the cemetery.
The Communal plot was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total Burials: 125.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 121.
Unidentified Casualties: 4.
Forest (Nord) is a small village on the road (D932) from Le Cateau to Bavay about 3 kilometres from Montay halte. The Communal Cemetery is on the small road to Fontaine-au-Bois and Landrecies, almost on the outskirts of the east side of the village.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
There are now over 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified. All fell in October and November 1918, in the clearing of Forest and the surrounding country. They were buried by the 17th, 33rd and 38th (Welsh) Divisions. Thirteen German graves of October and November 1918, were later removed from the cemetery.
The Communal plot was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total Burials: 125.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 121.
Unidentified Casualties: 4.
68479 Private
Harold Archibald Austin
7th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
24th October 1918, aged 19.
Row B. 39.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Austin, of 4, King's Rd., Rushden, Northants.
Harold Archibald Austin
7th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
24th October 1918, aged 19.
Row B. 39.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Austin, of 4, King's Rd., Rushden, Northants.
Second Lieutenant
John McNair Lamb
"A" Bty. 82nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
4th November 1918, aged 19.
Row C. 25.
Son of the Rev. John and Mrs. Lamb, of Duddingston Lodge, Duddingston, Midlothian.
His headstone bears the following inscription; "An Only Child "E'en As He Trod That Day To God So Walked He From His Birth"
John McNair Lamb
"A" Bty. 82nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
4th November 1918, aged 19.
Row C. 25.
Son of the Rev. John and Mrs. Lamb, of Duddingston Lodge, Duddingston, Midlothian.
His headstone bears the following inscription; "An Only Child "E'en As He Trod That Day To God So Walked He From His Birth"
The Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment stands on a lorry surrounded by his men, St Waast, near Bavay, 12 November 1918. © IWM (Q 3363)
Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. A man of the 6th Kings Liverpool Regiment and a German signboard "Kronprinzenstr." in Inchy, 13 September 1918 © IWM (Q 7065)
