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MORY STREET MILITARY CEMETERY

​St. Léger 
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​Pas De Calais

​France


​GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.18093, Longitude: 2.86169

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Location Information

St Leger is is between Arras and Bapaume. The Cemetery is at the south end of the village on the road to Mory, the D36E.


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site make wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Mory and St. Leger were occupied by Commonwealth troops in the middle of March 1917. They were lost after obstinate defence by the 40th and 34th Divisions a year after and recaptured towards the end of the following August, after severe fighting, by the 62nd (West Riding) and Guards Division.

The first Commonwealth burials were made in Mory Street Military Cemetery in 1917. The cemetery was once considerably larger, but 48 German and certain French graves were later removed.

The cemetery now contains 66 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. Five of the burials are unidentified and six graves graves destroyed by shell fire or removed after the Armistice are now represented by special memorials.

Casualty Details:
UK 66, Total Burials: 66.
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1961 - ©CWGC
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1961 - ©CWGC
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Second Lieutenant
Gerard Charles Brassey
2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards
27th August 1918, aged 19.
Plot A. 4.

Son of Sir Leonard Brassey, 1st Bart., M.P., and Lady Violet Brassey, of Apethorpe Hall, Peterborough.​

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1970 - ©CWGC
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Second Battle of the Somme. Battery of 8-inch howitzers (Royal Garrison Artillery) in action on the roadside at St. Leger. Note dust rising from road as result of concussion of discharge, 29 August 1918. © IWM (Q 11502)
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German 21 cm (210 mm) Mörser 16 heavy howitzer captured near Saint-Leger, 6 September 1918. Note scribling on the barrel noting the 281st Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery. © IWM (Q 7061)

Other cemeteries within 2 miles radius:

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St. Léger British Cemetery (0.6m)
​L' Homme Mort British Cemetery (1.1m)
Croisilles British Cemetery (1.2m)
​Mory Abbey Military Cemetery (1.5m)
​Croisilles Railway Cemetery (1.5m)
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Écoust St.-Mein British Cemetery (2.0m)
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H.A.C. (Honourable Artillery Company) Cemetery​ (2.0m)

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