ECOUST MILITARY CEMETERY
Ecoust-St.Mein
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Ecoust-St Mein is a village 16 kilometres south-east of Arras on the road from Bapaume to Douai. The Cemetery is about 400 metres north east of the main crossroads in the village, on the north side of the most northerly of the two roads to Bullecourt (D10E).
Ecoust-St. Mein was captured by the 8th and 9th Devon's in a blizzard on 2 April 1917, lost on 21 March 1918, and retaken at the end of the following August by the 3rd Division. The military cemetery was begun in April 1917 and used by fighting units until March 1918. A number of burials were then made by the Germans and after the Armistice, further graves, almost all of the 2nd/6th North Stafford's, were brought into Plot II, Row B from a position just outside the cemetery.
Casualty Details: UK 147, Australia 9, Germany 71, Total Burials: 227
Latest additions to the site | Belgian Cemetery Index | French Cemetery Index
Other Cemeteries and Memorials around the world | British Cemeteries and Memorials | 1939-1945 Cemetery Index
Cemeteries with Victoria Cross burials | Cemeteries with "Shot at Dawn" burials | Regimental Badge Archive | Roll of Honour
Information on how to submit a photograph or image to the site | Book Reviews | About Us and our task | Links
Contact Us (We always reply) | Site Map | Miscellaneous articles