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LOUEZ MILITARY CEMETERY

​Duisans

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Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Louez-les-Duisans is a hamlet in the Commune of Duisans, a village on the north-west edge of Arras.

To find the cemetery, take the main Arras to St. Pol road (N39) and turn right at the first junction after the Arras ring road intersection. Follow the D60 north to the 'Hamen du Louez'. The Cemetery is down the first major right turn.


Historical Information

The cemetery was begun by French troops and taken over by the 51st (Highland) Division as a "front-line cemetery" in March 1916. The 60th (London) Division followed during their short stay in France in the summer of 1916 and the last graves (except two) are those of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, who buried here from November 1916 to March 1917. The French graves were later removed.

Louez Military Cemetery now contains 204 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, and two German war graves.

Casualty Details: UK 155, Canada 49, Germany 2, Total Burials: 206

The cemetery as designed by G H Goldsmith

Shot at Dawn

Private Peter Giles, 14th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, shot for desertion on 24th August 1916. Plot 2. F. 6. Of Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was found to be missing from a roll-call prior to the allocation of fatigues, remaining at large for a week. (Putkowski, p.103)
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Picture © Geerhard Joos
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150290 Private
George Douglas Barton
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
8th November 1916.

Plot II. G. 10.

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186792 Private
Ernest Broadhurst
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
31st 
December 1916.
Plot III. A. 3.


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1498 Serjeant
Robert Donald
1st/4th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
9th June 1916, aged 21.
Plot I. D. 5.

Son of William and Jane Donald, of West Lodge, Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeen.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "He Loved God, His Country And His Home."


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A panoramic photograph showing wounded British and German soldiers as they await treatment in the sunshine outside a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) near Duisans, September 1918. On the left, a large tent can be seen and several huts are visible on the right. © IWM (CO 3151)
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30522 Private
Harry Fenton
181st Coy. Machine Gun Corps
15th July 1916, aged 25.
Plot I. E. 9.


Son of James Thomas and Minnie Fenton, of Blyth, Notts.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Until The Day Breaks And The Shadows Flee Away."

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400634 Private
Joseph Maitland Loney
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
6th December 1916, aged 21.
Plot I. H. 11.

Son of Joseph Loney, of 151, Piccadilly, London, Ontario.​

His headstone bears the inscription; "For As In Adam All Die So In Christ Shall All Be Made Alive." (
Biblical - Corinthians 15:22)

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Lieutenant
Charles Thomas McWilliam
5th Bn. Gordon Highlanders, attd. 51st (Highland) Div. Cyclist Coy. Army Cyclist Corps
18th March 1916, aged 23.

Plot I. B. 1.
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Son of the Rev. Thomas and Helen McWilliam, of The Manse, Foveran, Aberdeenshire.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Faithful Unto Death; Rev. II.10."

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Second Lieutenant
Frank Atkinson Thew
2nd/22nd Bn. London Regiment
12th September 1916, aged 26.
Plot I. G. 4.

Son of Dr. and Mrs. Helen Thew, of 48, Oakdale Rd., Streatham, London. Born at Alnwick, Northumberland.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Who Lives If England Dies."


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A portrait of four smiling Canadians, as they sit against a wall and await treatment at a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) at Duisans, 3 September 1918. They are all wearing labels on their uniforms, issued by the dressing station, which indicate the nature of their injuries. © IWM (CO 3214)
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12-inch gun (named "Bunty") and its Royal Garrison Artillery crew at Louez, 19 May 1918. © IWM (Q 6651)

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