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NOYELLES-SUR-L'ESCAUT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Nord

​France


Location Information

Noyelles-sur-L'Escaut is a village in the Department of the Nord, about 5 kilometres south-west of Cambrai.

From Cambrai follow the N30 main road towards Bapaume. After 5 kilometres, at Fontaine Notre Dame, turn left onto the D142 following the signs towards Containg and Noyelles. Passing through Containg the village of Noyelles can be found about 5 kilometres from Fontaine Notre Dame.

On entering the village turn left immediately after the New Civilian Cemetery into the Rue Sorel. Noyelles-sur-L'Escaut Communal Cemetery is located 50 metres down this road on the right. Access to the Extension is through the Communal Cemetery.


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site, makes wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Noyelles-sur-L'Escaut was captured by the 6th Division on the 20th-21st November 1917, evacuated at the beginning of December, and reoccupied on the 19th October 1918, by the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

The Communal Cemetery Extension was made by the 2nd Division Burial Officer and it contains the graves of officers and men of the 2nd, 62nd (West Riding) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, who fell in September-October 1918.

There are 115, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 4 are unidentified.

The Extension covers an area of 348 square metres and is enclosed on two sides by a brick wall.

Total Burials: 115.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 111. Total 111.



Dedications

8176 Lance Corporal John McClive, 2nd Bn. Highland Light Infantry, 5th October 1918, aged 24. "

Gone but not forgotten"


Remembered by Peter Wilson

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Second Lieutenant
Frederick Gregory Cowman, D. C. M.
6th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
28th September 1918, aged 22.
Plot II. B. 10.

Son of Joseph Gregory Cowman and Margaret Watson Cowman, of 15, Coronation Drive, Great Crosby, Liverpool.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "He Did His Best."


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93362 Private
Michael Dooley
23rd Bn. Royal Fusiliers
30th September 1918.
​Plot I. B. 8.

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G/80174 Private
William Perrins
​23rd Bn. Royal Fusiliers
30th September 1918.
Plot II. B. 3.


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Battle of Cambrai. Prisoners carrying wounded across the Escaut near Noyelles by a pontoon bridge, 8 October 1918. © IWM (Q 9519)
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Battle of Cambrai. A British dressing station in a French Chateau near Noyelles-sur-l'Escaut, 8 October 1918. © IWM (Q 9631)

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