ORANGE TRENCH CEMETERY
Monchy-Le-Preux
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.27665, Longitude: 2.88262
Location Information
Monchy-le-Preux is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais on the north side of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D33).
Orange Trench Cemetery is north of the village to the west of the road to Fampoux, down a 500 metre track.
Historical Information
Orange Hill and Orange Trench were features of the country south of the river Scarpe, through which Commonwealth forces fought their way in April 1917, during the Battle of Arras, and again in August 1918.
Orange Trench Cemetery was made after the fighting of 9-11 April 1917, when the 12th, 15th and 37th Divisions carried Monchy-le-Preux and the country between it and the Scarpe; the graves are all of April and May 1917.
Orange Trench Cemetery contains 118 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Exactly half of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to six casualties known, or believed, to be buried here among them.
Total Burials: 118.
Identified Burials: United Kingdom 59.
Unidentified Burials: United Kingdom 59.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Second Lieutenant
Andrew Gemmell Carmichael
6th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
11th April 1917, aged 24.
Row C. 9.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, of 19, Prince's Rd., South Wimbledon, London; husband of Margaret M. Carmichael, of 34, Dalkeith Rd., Edinburgh.
Andrew Gemmell Carmichael
6th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
11th April 1917, aged 24.
Row C. 9.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, of 19, Prince's Rd., South Wimbledon, London; husband of Margaret M. Carmichael, of 34, Dalkeith Rd., Edinburgh.
S/26209 Private
Robert Halliday
6th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
15th July 1917.
Sp. Mem. 5.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out."
Robert Halliday
6th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
15th July 1917.
Sp. Mem. 5.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out."
Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem
Lieutenant
Mountenay Coesvelt William Kortright
1st Bn. Essex Regiment
21st May 1917, aged 23.
Row A. 1.
Son of William C. M. and Mary Beatrice Kortright, of The Hut, Ingatestone, Essex.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Till The Day Breaks And The Shadows Flee Away."
Mountenay Coesvelt William Kortright
1st Bn. Essex Regiment
21st May 1917, aged 23.
Row A. 1.
Son of William C. M. and Mary Beatrice Kortright, of The Hut, Ingatestone, Essex.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Till The Day Breaks And The Shadows Flee Away."
Captain
Keith Morris Wearne
3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Essex Regiment
21st May 1917.
Sp. Mem. 3.
Keith Morris Wearne
3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Essex Regiment
21st May 1917.
Sp. Mem. 3.
Newfoundland War Memorial at Monchy-le-Preux, 1919. © Artist's Estate (IWM Q 49547)
A gunner of the Royal Garrison Artillery fires a Lewis gun which has been mounted on a wheel at the top of a post for use as an anti-aircraft gun, Monchy-le-Preux, 18 March 1918. © IWM (Q 10748)
Troops of the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Wagonlieu, 8 April 1917. This battalion took Monchy-le-Preux on 10 April 1917 with the loss of 12 officers and 240 other ranks. © IWM (Q 5111)
