HERVIN FARM BRITISH CEMETERY
St. Laurent-Blangy
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.30358, Longitude: 2.82476
Image above © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information
St.Laurent-Blangy lies about 3 kilometres north-east of Arras. Hervin Farm British Cemetery lies about one kilometre east of St. Laurent-Blangy, to the south of the road from St. Laurent-Blangy to Fampoux.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site make wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
Until 9 April 1917, the Allied front line ran practically through the village of St. Laurent-Blangy.
Hervin Farm was taken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 9 April 1917 and the cemetery was made by fighting units and field ambulances in that month; three graves were added subsequently.
The cemetery now contains 51 burials of the First World War, three of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 51.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 47, India 1.* Total 48.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 3.
*(British Captain in 11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse)
The cemetery was designed by Noel Ackroyd Rew
Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem
43594 Private
Fred Chawner
10th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
9th April 1917, aged 22.
Row C. 16.
Son of Mrs. R. Pateman, of 67 Great Arler Rd., Welford Rd. Leicester.
His headstone bears the inscription; "His Life He Sacrificed At God's Will. His Memory Liveth With Us Still."
Fred Chawner
10th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
9th April 1917, aged 22.
Row C. 16.
Son of Mrs. R. Pateman, of 67 Great Arler Rd., Welford Rd. Leicester.
His headstone bears the inscription; "His Life He Sacrificed At God's Will. His Memory Liveth With Us Still."
Brigadier
General Charles Gosling, Companion of St. Michael and St. George, three times Mentioned in Despatches
Commanding 10th Infantry Brigade, General Staff, formerly King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th April 1917, aged 48.
Row C. 6.
Husband of Mrs. V. R. Gosling, of Marlingford Hall, Norwich.
His headstone bears the inscription
WHY SEEK YE THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? HE IS NOT HERE HE IS RISEN
General Charles Gosling, Companion of St. Michael and St. George, three times Mentioned in Despatches
Commanding 10th Infantry Brigade, General Staff, formerly King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th April 1917, aged 48.
Row C. 6.
Husband of Mrs. V. R. Gosling, of Marlingford Hall, Norwich.
His headstone bears the inscription
WHY SEEK YE THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? HE IS NOT HERE HE IS RISEN
65199 Private
James Grant
10th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
21st April 1917, aged 23.
Row B. 9.
Son of James and Catherine Grant, of Cromwell Park, Almondbank, Perthshire. Native of Dalmally, Argyll.
His headstone bears the inscription "Remembered"
James Grant
10th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
21st April 1917, aged 23.
Row B. 9.
Son of James and Catherine Grant, of Cromwell Park, Almondbank, Perthshire. Native of Dalmally, Argyll.
His headstone bears the inscription "Remembered"
Lieutenant Colonel
Sidney Goss Mullock, Mentioned in Despatches
2nd Bn. Essex Regiment
12th April 1917.
Row C. 8.
Sidney was born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1881. He was the son of William and Martha Emily (Goss) Mullock.
Educated at Haileybury College 1896-98. He married Margaret Maud Bavin on 16th May 1909 in Blofield, Norfolk. They had two children, William and Anne.
In 1911 he was the Director of his own Limited Company in Wholesale, and they lived in Cwybran, Monmouthshire.
He joined The South Wales Borderers in 1899 & served in the South African War. After retiring he retained the Rank of Captain in the Special Reserves.
Sidney first entered France in 1914 before being badly wounded at the Battle of the Aisne and invalided home.
On his recovery, Sidney immediately received an appointment to the 13th (Service) Battalion (West Ham PAL's) Essex Regiment. This was a newly formed Battalion . He was appointed Captain and Adjutant for this formation period, to organise the growing mountain of official paperwork and military administration that was being generated. He was Mentioned In Dispatches, & promoted to Major.
Eventually he became Lieutenant Colonel & Commanding Officer of the 2nd Essex. On the 4th April 1917, he was killed while returning from a C.O.s conference at Fampoux near Arras. He was thirty six years old.
(adapted from © 2020 Herts at War.)
Sidney Goss Mullock, Mentioned in Despatches
2nd Bn. Essex Regiment
12th April 1917.
Row C. 8.
Sidney was born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1881. He was the son of William and Martha Emily (Goss) Mullock.
Educated at Haileybury College 1896-98. He married Margaret Maud Bavin on 16th May 1909 in Blofield, Norfolk. They had two children, William and Anne.
In 1911 he was the Director of his own Limited Company in Wholesale, and they lived in Cwybran, Monmouthshire.
He joined The South Wales Borderers in 1899 & served in the South African War. After retiring he retained the Rank of Captain in the Special Reserves.
Sidney first entered France in 1914 before being badly wounded at the Battle of the Aisne and invalided home.
On his recovery, Sidney immediately received an appointment to the 13th (Service) Battalion (West Ham PAL's) Essex Regiment. This was a newly formed Battalion . He was appointed Captain and Adjutant for this formation period, to organise the growing mountain of official paperwork and military administration that was being generated. He was Mentioned In Dispatches, & promoted to Major.
Eventually he became Lieutenant Colonel & Commanding Officer of the 2nd Essex. On the 4th April 1917, he was killed while returning from a C.O.s conference at Fampoux near Arras. He was thirty six years old.
(adapted from © 2020 Herts at War.)
A soldier reading at the entrance to his dug-out, reinforced with sandbags. Fampoux, 21 July 1917. © IWM (Q 5702)
Battle of the Scarpe. A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux, 29 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7037)
