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LOWRIE CEMETERY

​Havrincourt

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Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.11884, Longitude: 3.08204

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Location Information

Havrincourt is a village in the Department of the Pas de Calais, about 12 kilometres south-west of Cambrai and just north of Havrincourt Wood.

Lowrie Cemetery is located 1 kilometre north of the village on the left hand side of the D15 road towards Marquion.


Historical Information

Havrincourt village was stormed by the 62nd (West Riding) Division on 20 November 1917. It was lost on 23 March 1918, but it was retaken on 12 September by the 62nd Division, who held it against a counter-attack the following day. 

Lowrie Cemetery was made by the 3rd Division Burial Officer at the beginning of October 1918, and named after him. The original 211 burials, were increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields on all sides of Havrincourt. Most of the men buried in the cemetery died in September 1918.

The cemetery now contains 251 First World War burials, 47 of them unidentified.

Casualty Details: UK 251, Total Burials: 251

The cemetery was designed by N A Rew
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52517 Private
William Annall
1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
27th September 1918.
Row H. 8.

Son of Mr. J. Annall, of 9, Six Row, Springside, Kilmarnock.


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Second Lieutenant
Austin Provost Baldwin
2nd Bn. Suffolk Regiment 
27th September 1918, aged 35.
Row F. 21.

Son of William and Anna J. Baldwin, of 182, Park Rd., Peterborough. Native of Great Barton, Bury St. Edmund's.


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S/19942 Lance Corporal
Douglas Gordon Bonner
"D" Coy. 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
27th September 1918, aged 19.
Row C. 10.

Son of Alexander Coutts Bonner and Jeannie Bonner.


​His headstone bears the inscription; "God Is Love."

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61428 Private
Frank Denney
1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
27th September 1918.
Row B. 11.

Son of Mrs. Hughes, of 9, Laithe St., Colne, Lancs.

His headstone bears the inscription; "To Memory Ever Dear."

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Second Lieutenant
Frederick George Eckley
"F" Bn. Tank Corps
27th November 1917, aged 31.
Row G. 2.

Son of Mary Jane Eckley, of 32, Grove Park Avenue, Brislington, Bristol, and the late George Eckley.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Lord In Thy Gracious Keeping I Leave My Dear One Sleeping; Mother."

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201809 Private
Alexander Findlay
1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
27th September 1918, aged 32.
Row K. 17.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Findlay, of Janetta Cottage, Auchinleck, Ayrshire.


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S/14635 Private
Colin Murray Henry 
1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
27th September 1918, aged 20.
Row J. 6.

Son of David and Jeannie Henry, of Hillhead, Gutcher, Yell, Shetland.

His headstone bears the inscription; "He Died For Us."

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242568 Private
Robert Traill
1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
27th September 1918​.
Row J. 20.


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Men of the 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in a captured German communications trench near Havrincourt during the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917. © IWM (Q 3187)
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An artillery observation officer on top of a ruined wall at Havrincourt, 20 November 1917. © IWM (Q 3205)
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Damage to the Canal du Nord at Havrincourt, November 1917. © IWM Q 56827
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