| Montescourt-Lizerolles Communal Cemetery |
| Aisne, France |
Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell
| Montescourt-Lizerolles is in the
Department of the Aisne, with two contiguous villages. It is about 12
kilometres south of St.Quentin and 13 kilometres due east of Ham. The
Communal Cemetery is 800 metres south-east of the railway station.
The Communal Cemetery was used by British troops in February and March, 1918, and by the Germans when they captured the place in March. There are now 30, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly a quarter from the 1914-18 War are unidentified. No. of Identified Casualties: 22 |
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Regimental Breakdown: Royal Garrison Artillery 7 Royal Field Artillery 5 Machine Gun Corps (Inf.) 2 Ox. & Bucks. Light Inf. 2 The Queen's 2 Royal Berkshire Regt. 1 Royal Engineers 1 Gordon Highlanders/Cameronians 1 Total WW1 known burials: 21 Unknown WW1: 9 Unknown WW2: 1 Total burials: 31 The WW2 burial is: Sgt. John Joseph COURTNEY, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, 15th April 1943, aged 22. Son of John and Alice Courtney of Liverpool. His brother William James Courtney also died on service.
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Two unknown burials and the grave of Major M. H. Forsyth
The WW2 grave of Sgt. J. Courtney, R. A. F.
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