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LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIÈRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
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Nord

​France


Location Information

La Chapelle-d'Armentieres is a village 1.5 kilometres to the west of Armentieres, a large town in the north of France.

From the Marie in La Chapelle-d'Armentieres turn left onto the main road. Continue to the roundabout and then turn left towards Houplines. The narrow road leading to the Communal Cemetery is found on the right after 400 metres. The Commonwealth plot is to the left of the entrance to the cemetery.


Historical Information

La Chapelle-d'Armentieres village was in British hands from October 1914 until the fall of Armentieres on the 10th April 1918, and it was retaken in the following October. During the British occupation it was very close to the front line, and the cemeteries which it contains are those made by fighting units and Field Ambulances in the earlier days of trench warfare.

There are 61 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war commemorated in this site. The first grave is that of an Artilleryman buried in October 1914; the remaining graves were made in January-September 1915.

The Plot covers an area of 315 square metres.


Casualty Details: UK 60, Australia 1, Total Burials: 61
Shot at Dawn

62971 Gunner William Jones, 43rd Bty, Royal Field Artillery, executed for desertion 20th April 1915. Row E. 1.
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Second Lieutenant
Herbert Arthur William Beausire
1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers
15th March 1915, aged 22.
Row E. 3.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Beausire, of 15, Addison Crescent, Kensington, London. His brother Second Lieut. C.E. Beausire also fell and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Blessed Are The Dead Which Die In The Lord" Rev.14.13 Sacred To His Memory."

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8251 Private
Alfred Pearson
2nd Bn. Canadian Infantry
21st February 1915, aged 20.
Row D. 6.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Till We Meet Again."


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Captain
Cyril Henry Wickham
1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers
15th March 1915
Row A. 3.


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The Crown Prince Chateau, at Chapelle Armentieres, where the headquarters of the 10th Australian Infantry Brigade was located.

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