ECOUST-ST. MEIN BRITISH CEMETERY
Ecoust-St.Mein
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: The village of Ecoust-St Mein is 16 kilometres south-east of Arras and the British Cemetery is a little to the right of the Croisilles road, 80 metres from the Communal Cemetery.
Ecoust-St. Mein was captured by the 8th and 9th Devons 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 British Cemetery was then made, in continuation of a German Extension (now removed) of the communal cemetery.
Casualty Details: UK 145, Canada 6, Total Burials: 151
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