MONT-BERNANCHON CHURCHYARD
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.58335, Longitude: 2.58818
Location Information
Mont-Bernanchon is a village and commune in the Pas de Calais, 8 kilometres north-north-west of Bethune, a town on the road from Arras to Hazebrouck.
From Bethune follow the D937 road in the direction of Hazebrouck. Mont-Bernanchon Churchyard is in the middle of the village and the Commonwealth War Graves Plot is in the north-east corner of the churchyard.
Historical Information
In April 1918, the German advance on the Lys was checked and stopped a little to the east of the village.
Mont-Bernanchon saw fighting again during the Second World War. In late May 1940 units of the British Expeditionary Force fought a fierce and stubborn rearguard action in defence of the canal banks (the Aire-La Bassee canal is just north of the village) in order to hold up the German advance and aid the withdrawal to Dunkirk for evacuation.
Mont-Bernanchon Churchyard contains 13 First World War burials (three of them unidentified) and 55 from the Second World War (33 of them unidentified).
275360 Private
James Burnett
1st/8th Bn. Royal Scots
9th April 1918, aged 21.
Row B. 6.
Son of Archibald and Margaret Burnett, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh. Born at Innerleithen.
His headstone bears the inscription "In Proud Loving Memory From All His Loved Ones Till We Meet Again"
James Burnett
1st/8th Bn. Royal Scots
9th April 1918, aged 21.
Row B. 6.
Son of Archibald and Margaret Burnett, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh. Born at Innerleithen.
His headstone bears the inscription "In Proud Loving Memory From All His Loved Ones Till We Meet Again"
