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apanderson
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck, France |
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No. of Identified Casualties: 586
CWGC Information:
La Kreule is a small hamlet 2 kilometres north of Hazebrouck, on the road to St Sylvestre-Cappel and Steenvoorde. Leave Hazebrouck on the D916 heading north. The Cemetery is visible from the roundabout where the D916 crosses the Hazebrouck by-pass. The access road to the cemetery is 100 metres off the roundabout, on the left hand side.
La Kreule Military Cemetery was opened in April 1918 by the 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations, which came back from Outtersteene ahead of the German advance, and the 17th, which arrived from Lijssenthoek. These three stations, known collectively as "Ana Jana Siding", were posted to the north of La Kreule, but in the middle of April they withdrew to Blendecques, near St. Omer, and the cemetery was then used by heavy artillery and fighting units. In October 1918, the 17th Casualty Clearing Station returned with the 8th and the 64th and the cemetery was closed at the end of the month. The cemetery contains 576 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 11 German war graves. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. |
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apanderson
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:14 am Post subject: |
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Photograph kindly supplied by War Graves Project Member 'Boyentrant'.
Name: CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: "D" Bty. 119th Bde.
Age: 38
Date of Death: 14/09/1918
Service No: 193436
Additional information: Son of Duncan and Margaret Campbell, of Kirkintilloch; husband of Marion Campbell, of 41, Kerr Street, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. D. 26.
Cemetery: LA KREULE MILITARY CEMETERY, HAZEBROUCK
Listed on Kirkintilloch Civic Memorial, see: http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=119&highlight=kirkintilloch&mforum=warmemscot |
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apanderson
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Photograph kindly supplied by War Graves Project Member 'Boyentrant'.
Name: CHILDS, HAROLD BERTRAM
Initials: H B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 17/06/1918
Service No: 204688
Additional information: Son of Jane and the late Doctor Leonard Charles Childs, of London; husband of Ellen Hope-Childs, of Kirkintilloch, Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 6.
Cemetery: LA KREULE MILITARY CEMETERY, HAZEBROUCK
Listed on Kirkintilloch Civic Memorial (as Hope-Childs), see: http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=119&highlight=kirkintilloch&mforum=warmemscot |
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