BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY
St. Laurent-Blangy
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: St. Laurent-Blangy is a village adjoining the north-east side of Arras. Leave St Laurent-Blangy on the D919 towards Bailleul-sire-Berthoult for about 2.5 kilometres. Bailleul Road East Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north-east of the village on the south side (right) of the road.
A greater part of the village was included in the front taken over by British troops in March, 1916, and the remainder fell into British hands on the first day of the Battles of Arras, the 9th April, 1917. Bailleul Road East Cemetery was begun by the 34th Division in April, 1917, and carried on by fighting units until the following November; and Plot I, Row R, was added in August, 1918. Plots II, III, IV and V were made after the Armistice by the concentration of isolated graves from a very wide area North, East and South of Arras and from two other burial grounds. Every year of the war is represented in the cemetery, but more particularly the last nine months of 1917.
The two burial grounds from which British graves were brought to this cemetery were the following: Northumberland Cemetery, Fampoux, was on the West side of the road from Fampoux to Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult. This road was called Northumberland Lane, and a neighbouring trench was called Northumberland Avenue. The cemetery was used by fighting units from April to July, 1917, and one other burial was made in it in September, 1918. It contained the graves of 69 soldiers from the United Kingdom, and these (except seven which were not found) were concentrated into Plot V of Bailleul Road East Cemetery. Lagnicourt "Soldiers' Cemetery" (the German name) was near the South-East side of the village of Lagnicourt. It contained the grave of one R.F.C. Officer who fell in October, 1916.
Casualty Details: UK 1231, Canada 13, Australia 43, South Africa 6, Total Burials: 1293
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