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INCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Nord

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.12225, Longitude: 3.46675

Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension

​Location Information

Inchy (or Inchy-Beaumont) is a village approximately 6 kilometres west of Le Cateau on the main road (N43) between Cambrai and Le Cateau. 

Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension is within the Communal Cemetery, which is on the main road at the Le Cateau end of the village.

The register is available in the Mairie Monday to Friday from 8.30 to 12.00 and Friday from 8.30 to 12.00 and 15.00 to 17.30 


Historical Information

Inchy was captured on the 3rd October 1918. The Communal Cemetery Extension was made by the 17th and 33rd Divisions.

There are now 82, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. All fell in October, 1918.

The cemetery covers an area of 487 square metres and is enclosed by a low brick wall on three sides.

The commonwealth plot was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw


Total Burials: 82.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 53, Germany 26. Total 79.

Unidentified Casualties:  Germany 3. 


Cemetery image in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
Inchy Communal Cemetery Extension
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41922 Private
Ernest Carter
11th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
23rd October 1918, aged 31.
Row B. 41.

Son of Mr. H. Carter, of 44, Albion St., Ipswich.

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61462 Private
Leonard Edward Edis
2nd Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
25th October 1918, aged 20.
​Row B. 46.


Son of Jacob Henry and C. H. Edis, of 3, Marson Avenue, Woodlands, Doncaster.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Sleeps With England's Heroes In The Watchful Care Of God"


 My Great Uncle Leonard Edward Edis was 20 years old when he died of his wounds. He enlisted in May 1918, arrived in France 8th October.

Pictures courtesy of Julie Bridges (Great Niece)

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203287 Private
Thomas Shiel
1st Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
24th October 1918, aged 26.
Row B. 44.

Son of James and Isabella Shiel, of Innerleithen, Peebleshire; husband of the late Agnes Fairley Shiel.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "To Memory Ever Dear."


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685823 Gunner
Joeph Timbrell
"C" Battery, 79th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
10th October 1918, aged 20.
Row B. 3.


Son of John and Martha Timbrell, of 21, Whitfieid St., Birkenhead, Cheshire.


Picture
British troops resting on a felled tree near Le Cateau, 25 October 1918. IWM (Q 3317)
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A German supply column bivouacking at Caudry, September 1918. IWM (Q 55414)

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