NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras.
The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town on the south-east of the road to Labourse. The Extension is on the west side of the Communal Cemetery.
Historical Information
The COMMUNAL CEMETERY at Noeux-les-Mines was used by the Commonwealth forces (in succession to the French) from June 1915 to August 1917. The earlier burials were carried out by units and field ambulances but in April 1917, the 7th Casualty Clearing Station began to use the cemetery. It contains 980 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
The EXTENSION was begun in August 1917 and used until December 1918, chiefly by the 6th and 7th Casualty Clearing Stations. It contains 304 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 12 German war graves.
Casualty Details: UK 232, Canada 71, South Africa 1, Germany 12, Total Burials: 316.
The Commonwealth plot and extension were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Shot at Dawn
21654 Private Lawrence D. Elford, 7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, executed for desertion 11th October 1918, aged 28. Plot V. A. 19. Husband of Amy Elford, of 7, North's Yard, Northgate, Huddersfield.
2095 Private H. E. J. Lodge, 19th Bn. Canadian Infantry, died 13th March 1918. Plot IV. B. 5.
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras.
The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town on the south-east of the road to Labourse. The Extension is on the west side of the Communal Cemetery.
Historical Information
The COMMUNAL CEMETERY at Noeux-les-Mines was used by the Commonwealth forces (in succession to the French) from June 1915 to August 1917. The earlier burials were carried out by units and field ambulances but in April 1917, the 7th Casualty Clearing Station began to use the cemetery. It contains 980 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
The EXTENSION was begun in August 1917 and used until December 1918, chiefly by the 6th and 7th Casualty Clearing Stations. It contains 304 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 12 German war graves.
Casualty Details: UK 232, Canada 71, South Africa 1, Germany 12, Total Burials: 316.
The Commonwealth plot and extension were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Shot at Dawn
21654 Private Lawrence D. Elford, 7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, executed for desertion 11th October 1918, aged 28. Plot V. A. 19. Husband of Amy Elford, of 7, North's Yard, Northgate, Huddersfield.
2095 Private H. E. J. Lodge, 19th Bn. Canadian Infantry, died 13th March 1918. Plot IV. B. 5.
240106 Private
Alexander Mitchell Brand
4th/5th Bn. The Black Watch, (Angus and Dundee)
26th August 1918, aged 22.
Plot IV. C. 19.
The middle picture above shows Alec with his daughters, Agnes and Evelyn
Pictures courtesy of Elizabeth Littlebury, niece of Alec Brand.
