Locre (Loker) No.10 Cemetery, Belgium (CWGC)

LOCRE NO. 10 CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen

Belgium

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.77189 Longitude: 2.77698

Picture © Werner Van Caneghem

Location Information

Locre No. 10 Cemetery is located 11.5 Kms south-west of Ieper town centre, on a road leading from the Dikkebusseweg (N375). From Ieper town centre the Dikkebusseweg is reached via Elverdingsestraat, straight over a roundabout onto J.Capronstraat (for 30 metres), then left along M.Fochlaan. Immediately after the train station, the first right hand turning is the Dikkebusseweg.

On passing through the village of Dikkebus the road continues for 6 Km to the village of Loker. Continuing through the village of Loker the road becomes the Dikkebusstraat which runs for 2 Km to the village of Dranouter. The cemetery is located 1.5 Kms after this turning on the right hand side of the road.

Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty.

Historical Information

Locre (now Loker) was in Allied hands during the greater part of the war, and field ambulances were stationed in the Convent of St. Antoine. The village changed hands several times between 25 and 30 April 1918, when it was recaptured by the French. The hospice, or convent, was the scene of severe fighting on 20 May, but was not retaken until first week in July.

Locre No.10 Cemetery is one of a number made by the French troops in the Spring of 1918, but the graves of 248 French soldiers were later removed to another burial ground. The Commonwealth and German graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields after the Armistice.

The cemetery now contains 58 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 14 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to three casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Only three of the 75 German burials are identified.

The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.

Total Burials: 133.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 44, Germany 3. Total 47.

Unidentified Casualties: Germany 72, Commonwealth 14. Total 86.

Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos

The Battle of Kemmel, April 1918. A German signal station on Mont de l'Hospice just outside Locre, one and a half miles west of Kemmel Hill. © IWM Q 55284

9755 Serjeant
Daniel Considine
2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
23rd August 1918, aged 24.
Row C. 11.

Son of Daniel and Mary Ellen Considine, of St. Helens; husband of Margaret Emily Considine, of 1, Evans Cottages, Middleton Rd., Oswestry.

His headstone bears the inscription "For Duty, Right And Homeland"

31900 Corporal
Thomas Arthur Flewitt, M. M.
2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
21st August 1918, aged 30.
Row C. 8.

Son of John Thomas and Elizabeth Flewitt, of 134, Robins Lane, Sutton, St. Helens.

His headstone bears the inscription "Requiescant In Pace"

511208 Lance Corporal
Eric Mevill Kerle
14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
21st August 1918, aged 23.
Row C. 1.

Son of Isabel May Kerle (nee Melvill), of "Melvilla," Westonville Avenue, Margate.

8th March 1918, Locre; Group portrait of the football team of the 24th Machine Gun Company. Left to right, back row: 422C Corporal (Cpl) W. J. H. Parker; 7242 Private (Pte) C. Hough; 420C Pte M. M. McParland; 395 Cpl W. L. Rose; 450 Pte C. Ingles. Middle row: 3146 Pte G. Elliott MM; 413D Driver (Dvr) E. Cox; 459B Dvr H. W. Cooke; 565 Lance Corporal (LCpl) O. S. Johnson; 468B Pte G. F. Pearce; 7206 Pte J. I. Blaikie; 420B Pte R. F. Monument; 476 LCpl M. A. Share; 540 LCpl E. A. Davis; 413A Cpl J. Canet; 426C Pte J. McDowell. Front row: 427B Acting Corporal (Acting Cpl) J. W. Biggs; 425A Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Redford MM MSM; Major F. B. Hinton MC; 617 CSM P. O'Brien; Lieutenant W. A. Shelley MM.

Troops of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (36th Division) displaying their war trophies at Locre, after the capture of Wytschaete, 12 June 1917. © IWM Q 6384