AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Auberchicourt
Nord
France
GPS: 3.22253,50.32719
General Directions: Auberchicourt is a village 11.5 kilometres east of Douai on the road to Valenciennes. Auberchicourt British Cemetery is one kilometre west of the village on the north side of the road to Erchin, 300 yards away from the Communal Cemetery.
The village was occupied by Commonwealth troops in October 1918. The cemetery was begun at the end of that month and used until February 1919 while the 6th, 23rd and 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations were in the neighbourhood. These original graves are in Plot I but the cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves (mainly of 1918-19 but also of August 1914) were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and from smaller burial grounds.
Victoria Cross: Sergeant, Hugh Cairns, VC, DCM, 46th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment). Died of wounds on 02/11/1918 and is buried in plot I. A. 8.
Casualty Details: UK 202, Canada 86, Total Burials: 288
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