ST. POL BRITISH CEMETERY
St. Pol-sur-Ternoise
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.36876, Longitude: 2.33176
Location Information
The town of St. Pol is about 29 kilometres south-west of Bethune and 34 kilometres west-north-west of Arras. The British Cemetery is to the south of the town on the road to Frevent (the D916).
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible, but may be by an alternative entrance.
Historical Information
St. Pol-sur-Ternoise was a military administrative centre during the whole of the First World War and was taken over by Commonwealth troops from the French in March 1916. No.12 Stationary Hospital was posted on the race-course near the town from 1 June 1916 to 1 June 1919.
St. Pol British Cemetery was begun in March 1918, when the extension to the communal cemetery was almost full; the last burial was made in July 1920.
During the Second World War, the 44th Division was in the St. Pol area as reserve to 3rd Corps at the end of March 1940 and during the furious fighting covering the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk in May 1940, even a mobile bath unit took part in the defence of St. Pol.
St. Pol British Cemetery contains 258 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. the graves of seven Australian servicemen are represented by special memorials; they were among sixteen men of the 58th Battalion AIF killed by a shell at St. Pol station on 27 March 1918. The cemetery also contains four Second World War burials and two French war graves.
Casualty Details: UK 218, Canada 14, Australia 20, New Zealand 5, South Africa 1, France 2, Total Burials: 260.
The town of St. Pol is about 29 kilometres south-west of Bethune and 34 kilometres west-north-west of Arras. The British Cemetery is to the south of the town on the road to Frevent (the D916).
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible, but may be by an alternative entrance.
Historical Information
St. Pol-sur-Ternoise was a military administrative centre during the whole of the First World War and was taken over by Commonwealth troops from the French in March 1916. No.12 Stationary Hospital was posted on the race-course near the town from 1 June 1916 to 1 June 1919.
St. Pol British Cemetery was begun in March 1918, when the extension to the communal cemetery was almost full; the last burial was made in July 1920.
During the Second World War, the 44th Division was in the St. Pol area as reserve to 3rd Corps at the end of March 1940 and during the furious fighting covering the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk in May 1940, even a mobile bath unit took part in the defence of St. Pol.
St. Pol British Cemetery contains 258 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. the graves of seven Australian servicemen are represented by special memorials; they were among sixteen men of the 58th Battalion AIF killed by a shell at St. Pol station on 27 March 1918. The cemetery also contains four Second World War burials and two French war graves.
Casualty Details: UK 218, Canada 14, Australia 20, New Zealand 5, South Africa 1, France 2, Total Burials: 260.
Troops of the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (37th Division) marching to the trenches, St Pol (St. Pol-sur-Ternoise), November 1916. © IWM Q 1607
3029 Private
Charles Beer
58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
27th March 1918.
Plot II. A. 4.
Son of James and Louisa Downing Beer. Native of Avoca, Victoria, Australia.
Charles Beer
58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
27th March 1918.
Plot II. A. 4.
Son of James and Louisa Downing Beer. Native of Avoca, Victoria, Australia.
12301 Private
Boaz Griffiths
6th Bn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
2nd August 1918.
Plot II. B. 4.
Boaz Griffiths
6th Bn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
2nd August 1918.
Plot II. B. 4.
1676 Private
Herbert Leslie Hughes
58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
27th March 1918, aged 26.
Sp. Mem. 7.
Son of Thomas and Mary Ami Hughes; husband of Jessie Hughes, of 20, Faussett St., Albert Park, Victoria, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Our Dear Bert."
Herbert Leslie Hughes
58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
27th March 1918, aged 26.
Sp. Mem. 7.
Son of Thomas and Mary Ami Hughes; husband of Jessie Hughes, of 20, Faussett St., Albert Park, Victoria, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Our Dear Bert."
545267 Quartermaster Serjeant
Donald MacLeod
32nd Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. H. Q. Tank Corps
18th August 1918.
Pot II. B. 7.
Son of Mrs. M. MacLeod, of 39A, Baballan Docks, Stornoway.
Donald MacLeod
32nd Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. H. Q. Tank Corps
18th August 1918.
Pot II. B. 7.
Son of Mrs. M. MacLeod, of 39A, Baballan Docks, Stornoway.
1747 Private
Ernest Henry Newey
58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
27th March 1918, aged 21.
Sp. Mem. 6.
Son of William and Alice C. A. Newey. Native of Waterloo, Victoria, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out."
Ernest Henry Newey
58th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
27th March 1918, aged 21.
Sp. Mem. 6.
Son of William and Alice C. A. Newey. Native of Waterloo, Victoria, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out."
Lieutenant
Eric Ralph Zealley
Royal Air Force and King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
30th August 1918.
Plot II. B. 18.
Only son of Andrew and Adela Zealley, of Coly Bank, Colyton, Devon. Native of Wadeford, Chard, Somerset.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Dear Heart I Thank My God Upon Every Remembrance Of You."
Eric Ralph Zealley
Royal Air Force and King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
30th August 1918.
Plot II. B. 18.
Only son of Andrew and Adela Zealley, of Coly Bank, Colyton, Devon. Native of Wadeford, Chard, Somerset.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Dear Heart I Thank My God Upon Every Remembrance Of You."
Soldiers outside the Divisional Baths, Arras road, near St. Pol, February 1917. © IWM Q 4691
A nurse of the Voluntary Aid Detachment winding bandages near St. Pol, 15 May 1918. © IWM Q 3263
Dental section of No. 12 Stationary Hospital with their lorry at St Pol, 1 November 1918. © IWM Q 3366
