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L'HOMME MORT BRITISH CEMETERY

Écoust-St.-Mein
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Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Écoust-St-Mein is a village 10 kilometres north-east of Bapaume and L'Homme Mort is a hamlet nearly 3 kilometres to the south-west. The Cemetery is near the east side of the Braucourt-St Leger road (D36E).


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty. 


Historical Information

The hamlet of L'Homme Mort saw fighting in March and August 1918.

Plot I, Row A, of the cemetery was made in August 1918; the rest of this Plot and the whole of Plot II were formed after the Armistice when 152 graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields.

The cemetery now contains 166 burials of the First World War, 104 of them unidentified.


Casualty Details: UK 126, Canada 3, New Zealand 37, Total Burials: 166
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13718 Lance Corporal
John Albert William Allerby
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 29.
Plot II. C. 7.

Son of George and Sarah Ann Allerby.


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25/308 Lance Corporal
John Alexander Budge
3rd Bn. 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade
29th August 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. C. 16.

Son of Ralph and Mary Budge, of England.

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69462 Private
Clarence Clifford Cornelius
"C" Coy. 1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 27.
Plot II. C. 3.


Son of Mrs D, Ormsby (formerly Cornelius), and the late C. Cornelius.

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63838 Private
John Charles Muir
​1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 30.
Plot II. C. 12.


Son of William and Frances Dunlop, of Gympie, Australia.

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64482 Private
​Thomas George Fletcher
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 20.
Plot II. B. 8.

Son of Abel Fletcher.

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55743 Private
​James Graham
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.

25th August 1918
Plot II. B. 3.



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13759 Private
James Thomas Hare
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.

25th August 1918, aged 45.
Plot II. C. 2.
 
Son of James Thomas Hare, of Waitati, Otago, New Zealand.

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Troops of the Coldstream Guards with captured German MG 08/15 machine guns at Noreuil, 6 September 1918. © IWM (Q 7056)
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51531 Private
Herbert Haigh Johnston
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.

25th August 1918
Plot II. C. 13.



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34867 Private
William Edward Arnold Joynt
​1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 23.
Plot II. C. 18.

Son of William Frederick and Elizabeth Joynt, of 28, Argyle St., Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Captain
Pulteney Malcolm
Commanding the King's Company, 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards
25th August 1918, aged 24.
​Plot I. A. 1.



Only child of Lt. Col. P. Malcolm, M.V.O., D.S.O., and Mrs. Pulteney Malcolm; grandson of General Sir G. Malcolm, G.C.B. (who was nephew to the three "Knights of Eskdale," as the Duke of Wellington called them). Belonged to the Dumfriesshire (Eskdale) branch of the Malcolm family. Educated Summerfields (Oxford), Eton College (K.S.) and Oxford (Exhibitioner, C.C.C.). Joined King's Own Scottish Borderers in Aug., 1914, transf. to Grenadier Guards 1915. Was three times wounded. Was for a time Adjt. of Household Bn. at Windsor, and served with this Bn. on the Somme.

Memorial Adjoining the Cemetery Honouring Captain Pulteney Malcolm and his men.

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8/3971 Corporal
​John Fyfe McDonald
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918
Plot II. B. 4.


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63015 Private
Jack Vernon Midgley
​1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 25.
Plot II. C. 8.

Son of William and Adelaide Maria Midgley, of Rakaia, New Zealand.

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25/1184 Rifleman 
Rodger Joseph Oliver
​3rd Bn. 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade
29th August 1918, aged 21.
Plot II. C. 17.

Son of Herbert and Emily Oliver, of Hunterville, New Zealand.


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8/2709 Lance Corporal
David Rhind
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.

25th August 1918
Plot II. B. 7.



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53275 Private
​Lawrence Smith
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.

25th August 1918
Plot II. B. 2.

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46101 Private
Freeman Taylor
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918
Plot II. C. 11.


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58946 Private
Albert Edwin Brown
​1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
25th August 1918, aged 33.
Plot II. B. 14.

Husband of Rose E. Williams.



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59569 Private
Alfred James Wilson
1st Bn. Otago Regiment, N. Z. E. F.
26th August 1918
Plot II. B. 15.


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An advanced dressing station under a ruined house at Ecoust-St-Mein, 17 July, 1917, showing the Royal Army Medical Corps Captain, decorated with a Military Cross, and an Officer of the Gordon Highlanders. © IWM (Q 5689)

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