WARRY COPSE CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.15702, Longitude: 2.78617
Picture © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
The village of Courcelles-le-Comte is 17 kilometres south of Arras. The Cemetery is 1 kilometre south-east of the village and about 50 metres north-west of the small copse from which it takes its name.
Historical Information
The village of Courcelles-le-Comte was taken by the 3rd Division on 21 August 1918 and Warry Copse Cemetery was made by the 3rd Division Burial Officer at the end of the month.
The cemetery contains 40 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of which are unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total Burials: 40.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 38.
Unidentified Casualties: 2.
64787 Private
Edgar Cheater
13th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
21st August 1918, aged 28.
Row A. 26.
Son of Robert Rose Cheater and Margaret Cheater, of Seaforth, Liverpool; husband of Hannah Cheater, of 15, Carolina St., Bootle, Liverpool.
Edgar Cheater
13th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
21st August 1918, aged 28.
Row A. 26.
Son of Robert Rose Cheater and Margaret Cheater, of Seaforth, Liverpool; husband of Hannah Cheater, of 15, Carolina St., Bootle, Liverpool.
51043 Private
Francis Donlon
1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
22nd August 1918.
Row A. 1.
Francis Donlon
1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
22nd August 1918.
Row A. 1.
21764 Lance Serjeant
Charles Napier Mitchell, MM and Bar.
13th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
21st August 1918, aged 23.
Row A. 27.
Son of Thomas Mitchell, of 36, Caradoc Rd., Seaforth, Liverpool.
Charles Napier Mitchell, MM and Bar.
13th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
21st August 1918, aged 23.
Row A. 27.
Son of Thomas Mitchell, of 36, Caradoc Rd., Seaforth, Liverpool.
S/44004 Private
Joseph C. Rock
1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
23rd August 1918.
Row A. 37.
Joseph C. Rock
1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
23rd August 1918.
Row A. 37.
