BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY
Roeux
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Roeux is a village about 8 kilometres east of Arras. Brown's Copse Cemetery is about one kilometre north-west of Roeux on the eastern outskirts of the neighbouring village of Fampoux. It is signposted from Fampoux village.
Roeux was built over a system of caves which helped to make its capture in 1917 exceptionally difficult. It was attacked by the 9th (Scottish) Division without success on 12 April. The chemical works close to the railway station were taken by the 51st (Highland) Division on 22 April and after incessant fighting, the village was cleared by the same Division on 14 May. The chemical works were lost again and retaken on 16 May. The Germans re-entered the village at the end of March 1918, and it was finally retaken by the 51st Division on the following 26 August. The cemetery is named from a small copse (the Bois Rossignol) on the east side. Plots I to IV are composed almost entirely of graves cleared from the battlefield in the summer of 1917. Plots V to VIII were made after the Armistice when 850 graves were brought in from a wide area north and east of Arras.
Victoria Cross: Lieutenant Donald Mackintosh, VC, 3rd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action 11/04/1917, plot II. C. 49.
Casualty Details: UK 1936, Canada 2 , South Africa 130, Total Burials: 2068
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Picture courtesy of Keith Burroughs, great nephew of this soldier |
46573 Private Albert Burroughs 1st/5th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment 24/09/1918, aged 19. Son of Mary Ellen Burroughs, of 35, Rockley Street, Walton, Liverpool, and the late William John Burroughs. Plot VII. G. 25 His elder brother William John Burroughs served with the Lancashire Hussars and survived the war. He married and had a son who he named Albert after him.
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Picture courtesy of Susan Foulkes, (nee Burroughs) great niece of this soldier |
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