CHAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
Holnon
Aisne
France
General Directions: Holnon is a village 6 kilometres west of St Quentin and south of the main road to Vermand and Amiens. From Peronne take the D44 towards St Quentin. Travel for approximately 11 kilometres when you will come to a main road, the N23. Go towards St Quentin. Holnon is approximately 3 kilometres from St Quentin and the cemetery will be found on the right on entering Holnon.
Holnon village and wood were the scene of heavy fighting between the 6th Division and the enemy on the 14th-19th September, 1918. Chapelle British Cemetery, named from a wayside shrine, was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves of 1917-18 from the battlefields West of St. Quentin and from Holnon Communal and French Military Cemeteries.
Casualty Details: UK 621, Total Burials: 621
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