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HASPRES COPPICE CEMETERY

​Haspres
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Nord

​France


Location Information

Haspres is a village a little north of the straight main road (the Chaussee Brunehaut) from Cambrai to Villers-Pol.

Haspres Coppice Cemetery is south of the village on the west side of the road to Villers-en-Cauchies.


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site make wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

The village of Haspres was taken after severe fighting, with the help of tanks, on 20 October 1918.

Haspres Coppice Cemetery was made by the 1st Rifle Brigade and by units of the 49th Division. All of the burials date from the period 13-26 October 1918, and 50 of the graves are of men of the 19th Lancashire Fusiliers, killed on 13 October. Of the remainder, 11 belonged to the 1st Rifle Brigade.

The cemetery contains 64 First World War burials.

Casualty Details: UK 64, Total Burials: 64


Picture
46359 Rifleman
Ben Baker
1st Bn. Rifle Brigade
20th October 1918, aged 19.
Plot A. 1.

Son of George and Ada Baker, of Captains Green, Wadhurst, Sussex.

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49406 Private
Henry Stowell
19th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
13th October 1918, aged 34.
Row A. 29.

Son of Henry and Isabella Stowell, of 170, Hardshaw St., St. Helens.


Picture
Somme Sector. Main street in front of gun-park in school courtyard. Haspres, November 1916. © IWM (Q 52893)

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