TOURCOING (PONT-NEUVILLE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.73988, Longitude: 3.17049
Location Information
Tourcoing is a town in the Lille district and the Communal Cemetery is located in the village of Neuville, which lies between Halluin and Tourcoing.
Leave Neuville on the D291 heading towards Tourcoing. Passing in front of the church, on the left hand side, the cemetery entrance will be found 200 metres from the church on the same side. The Commonwealth War Graves Plot is situated in the centre of the cemetery.
Visiting Information
This cemetery is closed each day between 12.00 and 14.00 hours.
Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
The 10th Stationary Hospital and the 8th and 10th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at Tourcoing in November 1918, and for some months after.
The cemetery was used by the enemy during the war and after the Armistice, officers and men who died in the British hospitals were buried in a plot in the middle of the cemetery. The 68 British Prisoners of War graves were then regrouped into the British plot.
There are 182, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. Of these, 3 are unidentified.
The cemetery covers an area of 755 square metres.
The Commonwealth plot was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
Total Burials: 182.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 176, Germany 1, New Zealand 1, South Africa 1. Total 179.
Unidentified Casualties: 3.
Pictures © Werner Van Caneghem except for image above
Entrance & Cemetery Map
Commonwealth Burials
Captain
Denison Seymour Casswell
102nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps attached to 6th Bn. Rifle Brigade
7th November 1917, aged 23.
Row O. 9.
Son of Henry and Anna M. Casswell, of Stammerham Cottage, Holbrook, Horsham. Born at Sachel Court, Alfold, Surrey.
Denison Seymour Casswell
102nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps attached to 6th Bn. Rifle Brigade
7th November 1917, aged 23.
Row O. 9.
Son of Henry and Anna M. Casswell, of Stammerham Cottage, Holbrook, Horsham. Born at Sachel Court, Alfold, Surrey.
26681 Private
Samuel Edwards Fletcher
4th Bn. Grenadier Guards
17th April 1918.
Row D. 9.
His headstone bears the inscription "So He Passed Over, And All The Trumpets Sounded For Him On The Other Side"
Samuel Edwards Fletcher
4th Bn. Grenadier Guards
17th April 1918.
Row D. 9.
His headstone bears the inscription "So He Passed Over, And All The Trumpets Sounded For Him On The Other Side"
Lieutenant
Reginald Greaves
12th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
22nd February 1919, aged 23.
Row L. 6.
Son of Albert Edward and Elizabeth Greaves, of 31, Prospect Vale, Fairfield, Liverpool.
His headstone bears the inscription "Lead Kindly Light"
Reginald Greaves
12th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
22nd February 1919, aged 23.
Row L. 6.
Son of Albert Edward and Elizabeth Greaves, of 31, Prospect Vale, Fairfield, Liverpool.
His headstone bears the inscription "Lead Kindly Light"
Some of the individual Commonwealth War Graves
2447 Sergeant
Edward Leslie E. Hallam
10th Squadron, Royal Air Force
22nd February 1919.
Row M. 1.
Edward Leslie E. Hallam
10th Squadron, Royal Air Force
22nd February 1919.
Row M. 1.
31545 Private
John Percy Joseph White
2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
28th April 1918, aged 26.
Row O. 8.
Son of William and Elizabeth White, of Batherton, Nantwich, Cheshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "He Died That Others Might Live"
John Percy Joseph White
2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
28th April 1918, aged 26.
Row O. 8.
Son of William and Elizabeth White, of Batherton, Nantwich, Cheshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "He Died That Others Might Live"
