LAGNICOURT HEDGE CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.15429, Longitude: 2.9532
Lagnicourt Hedge Cemetery
Location Information
Lagnicourt-Marcel is a village situated north of the Bapaume to Cambrai road.
From Bapaume take the N30 in the direction of Cambrai. After passing the village of Beugny, continue for approximately 1 kilometre and then turn left onto the D18 in the direction of Croissilles. Continue for 3.6 kilometres. Once in the village of Lagnicourt-Marcel, turn first left at the CWGC signpost. The Cemetery will be found 300 metres further on the right.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access with some difficulty.
Historical Information
Lagnicourt was taken in April 1917. On the 15th April it was the scene of a desperate counter-attack by the Prussian Guard, which was repelled. It was lost on the 21st March 1918, and retaken by the 2nd Guards Brigade on the following 3rd September.
Lagnicourt Hedge Cemetery was begun by the 7th Somerset Light Infantry in June 1917 (though one Australian grave of April, 1917, is in Row C), and used until November 1917. Plot II was made in March 1918 by the enemy (who called the cemetery Lagnicourt Cemetery No. 2, having three others in the commune). Plot I was completed by the Guards Division in September 1918.
This cemetery contains the graves of 63 First World War Commonwealth casualties, one of which is unidentified and 15 burials of other nationalities.
Total Burials: 79.
World War One Commonwealth Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 61, Australia 1. Total 62.
World War One Commonwealth Unidentified Casualty: United Kingdom 1.
Other Nationalities: 15.
The Cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
25999 Lance Corporal
Leonard Edward Carr
"C" Company, 7th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
7th June 1917, aged 28.
Plot I. A. 8.
Husband of Elizabeth S. Carr, of Beech Cottage, Pilford Heath, Wimborne, Dorset.
Leonard Edward Carr
"C" Company, 7th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
7th June 1917, aged 28.
Plot I. A. 8.
Husband of Elizabeth S. Carr, of Beech Cottage, Pilford Heath, Wimborne, Dorset.
Second Lieutenant
Eric Francis Seaforth Hayter
87th Battery, Royal Field Artillery
21st March 1918, aged 25.
Plot I. A. 14A.
Only son of Col. F. J. and Helen F. Hayter. Born at Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia.
For more information on Eric Hayter click here
Eric Francis Seaforth Hayter
87th Battery, Royal Field Artillery
21st March 1918, aged 25.
Plot I. A. 14A.
Only son of Col. F. J. and Helen F. Hayter. Born at Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia.
For more information on Eric Hayter click here
510121 Lance Corporal
Howard Sinclair Seton
1st/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
23rd September 1917, aged 22.
Plot I. B. 15.
Son of George R. and Mary S. Seton, of 39, Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, London. Native of Edinburgh.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Where He Felt His Honour Grip He Made That Aye His Border."
Howard Sinclair Seton
1st/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
23rd September 1917, aged 22.
Plot I. B. 15.
Son of George R. and Mary S. Seton, of 39, Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, London. Native of Edinburgh.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Where He Felt His Honour Grip He Made That Aye His Border."
19th May 1917; Troops billeted in a sunken road near Bullecourt, in France, during the fighting of the Australian troops in that sector. Note the graves marked by crosses on the field behind the road.
1917; An advanced dressing station built in the bank of the main Vaulx-Bullecourt road, near Vaulx, in France. During the Bullecourt fighting the 7th Field Ambulance treated the wounded here, sending the serious cases by motor ambulance to the casualty clearing stations further to the rear.
