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LANDRECIES BRITISH CEMETERY 
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Nord

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.12849, Longitude: 3.67753

Landrecies British Cemetery

Location Information

Landrecies is a small town in the Department of the Nord approximately 40 kilometres south-south-east of Valenciennes.

The British Cemetery is west of the town on the road to Pommereuil and Le Cateau, the Route d'Happegardes (D959).


Visiting Information

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


Historical Information

Landrecies was the scene of rear-guard fighting on 25 August 1914, after the Battle of Mons, and from that date it remained in German hands until it was captured by the 25th Division on 4 November 1918. Landrecies British Cemetery was made by the 25th Division in November 1918 and all burials date from the period October 1918 to January 1919.

Landrecies British Cemetery contains 165 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 14 of which are unidentified.

Total Burials: 165.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 151.

Cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery

Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
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700773 Gunner
Herbert Ballard
"B" Bty. 330th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
4th November 1918, aged 23.
Row A. 17.

Brother of Miss Alice Ballard, of 33, Infirmary St., Blackburn.


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95937 Private
William Hardy
13th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
29th October 1918, aged 19.
Row B. 22.


Son of John George and Margaret Jane Hardy, of 19, South Row, Sunniside, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham.

His headstone bears the inscription "Ever Remembered"



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Captain
Stanley Frederick Hill, M. C. and Bar.
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4th Bn. attd. 1st/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
4th November 1918, aged 30.
Row A. 70.

Son of William and Hester Ann Hill, of 1, Upper Belgrave Rd., Clifton, Bristol.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "
We Doubt Not That Got One So True God Will Love Other Noble Work To Do."





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55033 Lance Corporal
Edward George Sirett
1st/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
4th November 1918, aged 19.
Row A. 43.

Son of Caleb Sirett, of Newington House, Charlbury, Oxon.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Yet Speaketh"



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British troops resting on a felled tree near Le Cateau, 25 October 1918. © IWM (Q 3317)
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The King's visit to the Fourth Army (50th, 46th, 1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions in the Maubeuge - Avesnes - Landrecies area). King George V and General Henry Rawlinson walking along the Maubeuge-Avesnes road lined with British troops, 1 December 1918. © IWM (Q 9720)
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The King's visit to the Fourth Army (50th, 46th, 1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions) in the Maubeuge - Avesnes - Landrecies area, 1 December 1918. © IWM (Q 9722)

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery
Landrecies British Cemetery

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