CROSS ROADS CEMETERY

Fontaine-au-Bois

Nord

France

General Directions: Fontaine-au-Bois is a village between Le Cateau and Landrecies. From the main street of the village take the Rue du Pont for approximately 1.5 kilometres to find the Cemetery on the right side of the road, a few metres east of the Bousies-Ors road.

Cross Roads Cemetery was begun in the first week of November, 1918, by the 1/1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance; and at the Armistice it contained the graves of 61 soldiers from the United Kingdom (now Row A and part of Row B, Plot I). It was then enlarged by the concentration of graves from the battlefields between the Escaut and the Sambre, and from certain other cemeteries; with four exceptions, every man buried in it fell between the 1st October, 1918 and the Armistice.

The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were brought to Cross Roads Cemetery: Bavay German Cemetery, on the South side of the road to Feignies, in which eleven soldiers from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand were buried in the latter half of 1918. The German graves have been removed to Frasnoy German Cemetery. Catillon Communal Cemetery Extension, in which 35 soldiers of the 1st and 8th Divisions were buried after the capture of Catillon by the 1st Division on the 4th November, 1918. Eth British Cemetery, on the road to Wargnies-le-Grand, containing the graves of 16 men of the 19th Division who fell on the 4th and 5th November, 1918. Villereau Churchyard, in which two soldiers from New Zealand and one from the United Kingdom were buried in November, 1918.

Casualty Details: UK 651, Australia 1, New Zealand 89, South Africa 2, Total Burials: 743

30004 Private

David Alexander Brown

9th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment

10/10/1918

Son of John Brown of 37 Fraser Street Newtownards Road, Belfast.
He was born in Newry. Co Down, Ulster.
Plot IV. D. 23.

Picture courtesy of Glenn Stafford, great nephew of this soldier

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