DOURLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Doulers

Nord

France

General Directions: Doulers (previously Dourlers) is a small village on the D33 off the main road N2 between Maubeuge and Avesnes-sur-Helpe. The Communal Cemetery Extension, in the Communal Cemetery in the village, will be found by taking the first right turning coming in from the N2.

Dourlers village was in German hands during almost the whole of the First World War. It was taken on 7 November 1918, after heavy fighting, by the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The communal cemetery was used by the Germans during the war, but in November 1918, a small extension was made by Commonwealth troops at the west end. After the Armistice, the German graves from the communal cemetery and others from the battlefields, together with Commonwealth graves from small cemeteries and isolated positions, were brought into the extension. The extension also contains 108 German burials, 62 of which are unidentified. Of the Commonwealth graves brought into the extension, 45 came from Limont-Fontaine Communal Cemetery German Extension and 15 from Lancashire Cemetery, St. Hilaire-sur-Helpe.

Victoria Cross: Captain Arthur Moore Lascelles, VC, MC, 3rd Bn. Durham Light Infantry, died 07/11/1918, plot II. C. 24.

Casualty Details: UK 161, Germany 108, Total Burials: 269

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