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VERTAIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Nord

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.21151, Longitude: 3.51853

Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension

Location Information

Vertain is a village in the Department of the Nord, 5 kilometres north-east of Solesmes. The Cemetery is at the west end of the village, on the road to Haussy.


Visiting Information

The register is available in the Mairie from Monday to Saturday from 9.00 to 12.00 


Historical Information

Vertain was captured on 23 October 1918 by the 24th Royal Fusiliers (2nd Division), who billeted there the same night.

On the east side of the Communal Cemetery was a small German extension (removed in September 1922) and the Commonwealth extension was made at the end of October 1918 by the 2nd Division, on the east side of the German burials.

The extension contains 52 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 51.

Unidentified Casualty: United Kingdom 1.

The extension was designed by
W H Cowlishaw
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Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension
Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension
Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension
Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension
Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension
Vertain Communal Cemetery Extension
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52479 Private
William McMurdo
1st Bn. 
Royal Scots Fusiliers
24th October 1918, aged 20.
Row A. 10.

Native of Commondyke. Son of William and Mary P. McMurdo, of 176, Dalsalloch Houses, Auchinleck, Ayrshire.


Picture
52798 Private
James Wilson
1st Bn. 
Royal Scots Fusiliers
24th October 1918, aged 21.
Row A. 9.




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