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GRAND-FAYT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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GPS Coordinates:​ Latitude: 50.11002, Longitude: 3.80945

Location Information

Grand-Fayt is a village roughly equi-distant between the towns of Landrecies and Avesnes-sur-Helpe. It is just south of the main road (D962) between Maroilles and Avesnes, on the Marbaix to Prisches road (D117).

The cemetery is on the east side of the village, on the road (D232) to Petit-Fayt.


Historical Information

Grand-Fayt was the scene of the "Rearguard Affair of Le Grand Fayt" on 26 August 1914, when 290 officers and men of the 2nd Connaught Rangers were cut off. The village was cleared by the 32nd Division on 6 November 1918.

The communal cemetery contains 11 Commonwealth burials of the First World War six of them unidentified.


Burial Details


Major Edward Alexander Chisholm, M. C. and 2 Bars, "C" Battery, 161st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery formerly 16th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, died 7th November 1918, aged 26. Son of Duncan and Mary Chisholm, of Linwood, Nova Scotia.

Captain Robert Clark, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 20th Royal Hussars, died 7th November 1918. Son of John Clark, late Chief Constable of Hamilton, and Mrs. John Clark; husband of Marion White Clark, of "Clooncommon," Shields Rd., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. M.A., M.B., Ch.B.

Captain Francis William Mowbray Leader, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 26th August 1914, aged 33. Son of Mrs. Agnes L. Leader, of Classas, Coachford, Co. Cork.

10412 Lance Corporal E. McCann, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 26th August 1914.

10113 Lance Corporal J. J. Wyley, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 26th August 1914, aged 23. Son of L. F. Wyley, of 134, Chapel St., Gorsehill, Swindon, Wilts. Born at Bantry, Co. Cork.

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Edward Alexander Chisholm, M. C. and 2 Bars, 
"C" Battery, 161st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery formerly 16th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
7th November 1918, aged 26. 

​Son of Duncan and Mary Chisholm, of Linwood, Nova Scotia.

His headstone bears the inscription "Requiescat In Pace"



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Francis William Mowbray Leader
2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers
26th August 1914, aged 33. 

​Son of Mrs. Agnes L. Leader, of Classas, Coachford, Co. Cork.

Other Burial Details

Captain Robert Clark, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 20th Royal Hussars, died 7th November 1918. Son of John Clark, late Chief Constable of Hamilton, and Mrs. John Clark; husband of Marion White Clark, of "Clooncommon," Shields Rd., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. M.A., M.B., Ch.B.

10412 Lance Corporal E. McCann, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 26th August 1914.

10113 Lance Corporal J. J. Wyley, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 26th August 1914, aged 23. Son of L. F. Wyley, of 134, Chapel St., Gorsehill, Swindon, Wilts. Born at Bantry, Co. Cork.

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