COUIN NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

Couin

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Couin is a village 15 kilometres east of Doullens. Visitors should follow the main Doullens to Arras road, N25, as far as the crossroads with the D23. Follow the D23 to Souastre, then the D2 to Couin, as indicated by the CWGC sign. Couin British Cemetery and Couin New British Cemetery are at the side of the road just before entering the village.

The New British Cemetery was opened across the road from the British Cemetery, and was used by field ambulances from January 1917 (with a long interval in 1917-18) to the end of the war. One grave was moved there after the Armistice from a cemetery at Coigneux.

Victoria Cross: Serjeant Dickson Cornelius Savage, VC, DCM, MM, Twice mentioned in Despatches, 2nd Bn. Otago Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, killed in action 25/07/1918. Row G. 5. (Served as Serjeant Richard Charles Travis)

Casualty Details: UK 344, Canada 2, New Zealand 14, Germany 2, Total Burials: 362

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