CUCKOO PASSAGE CEMETERY
Heninel
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Cuckoo Passage Cemetery is midway between Heninel and Fontaine-les-Croisilles. The village of Heninel will be found on the D33 road, Boisleux St Marc to Wancourt. From Rue de Wancourt, turn right to Rue de St Germain, then left at fork for 800 metres, then right at fork on road to Cherisy Road East Cemetery (CWGC signposted). 1 kilometre further on road access to a small track will be seen and Cuckoo Passage Cemetery is 120 metres along this track.
Cuckoo Passage Cemetery (named from a trench which ran from north-east to south-west beside the site of the cemetery) was begun by a divisional burial officer in April 1917 and closed in May of the same year.
Casualty Details: UK 54, Total Burials: 54
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43871 Private John Howarth 18th Bn. Manchester Regiment23/04/1917, aged 36. Son of Mrs. Sellers, of Wigan; husband of Sarah Ann Heley (formerly Howarth), of 599, Liverpool Rd., Platt Bridge, Wigan. Row A. 42
Pictures courtesy of Vera Howarth |
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