Ten Tree Alley Cemetery

TEN TREE ALLEY CEMETERY

Puisieux

Pas De Calais

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.09576, Longitude: 2.67546

Image above © Carl Liversage @carl_liversage

Location Information

Using the D919 from Arras to Amiens you will drive through the villages of Bucquoy, Puisieux then Serre-les-Puisieux (approximately 20 kilometres south of Arras). Immediately on leaving the village, take the small lane on the left hand side and continue for a further 1 kilometre where a CWGC signpost will lead you to Ten Tree Alley Cemetery on the left side.

The register is available in the Mairie on Tuesday ; Thursday and Friday from 14.00 to 16.00 and Saturday from 10.00 to 12.00

Historical Information

Puisieux village was captured by British troops on the 28th February 1917, lost on the 26th March 1918 and recovered on the following 21st August.

Ten Tree Alley was made by the V Corps (as Ten Tree Alley Cemetery No.2, V Corps Cemetery No.24) in 1917 and it stood beside a former German trench, captured by the 32nd Division on the night of the 10th-11th February 1917.

There are 67, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 24 are unidentified.

The Cemetery covers an area of 250 square metres, without the access path and is enclosed by a rubble wall.

The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw

Total Burials: 67.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 43. Total 43.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 24. Total 24.

Second Lieutenant
Gilfrid Elliott Brown
11th Bn. Border Regiment
18th November 1916.
Row A. 51.

15464 Private
William Hayton
11th Bn. Border Regiment
18th November 1915.
Row A. 45.

Captain
Allan Gow Marshall
17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry
12th February 1917, aged 36.
Row A. 23.

Son of James and Mary Gow Marshall; husband of Janie Anderson Wood Marshall, of 34, Ancaster Drive, Anniesland, Glasgow. Born at Glasgow.

His headstone bears the inscription "Over Us The Bow Of God's Eternal Goodness Bends"

Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

The remains of a captured German trench at Puisieux, which was occupied by the British from 28th February 1917. IWM (Q 1811)

A working party of 2nd Battalion, the Manchester Regiment, part of 32nd Division, moving up to the trenches near Serre, January 1917. IWM (Q 1792)

British soldiers stand in the entrance to a captured German dug-out near Puisieux, captured during operations on the Ancre in February 1917. IWM (Q 1810)