AVESNES-LE-COMTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Avesnes-le-Comte

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Avesnes-le-Comte is a large village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, approximately 20 kilometres west of Arras and 18 kilometres south-east of St. Pol. The Communal Cemetery lies on the CD No. 8 between the road to Manin and a side road called "Petit chemin de Manin" on the north-west side of the village and the extension is on the western side of it.

The village of Avesnes-le-Comte was for some time the VI Corps headquarters. The 37th and 30th Casualty Clearing Stations were there from April 1916, the 42nd in June 1916, and the 41st in January 1917. The communal cemetery contains two Commonwealth burials of the First World War, both made in April 1916. Thereafter, burials were made in the extension, which contains 333 graves. Most of these were from the 37th CCS which stayed in the village until July 1917.

Casualty Details: UK 326, Canada 4, South Africa 3, Total Burials: 333

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