GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER
Cuinchy
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Cuinchy is a village about 7 km east of the town of Bethune and north of the N41 which runs between Bethune and La Bassee. About 1 km north-west of the village are cross roads known as Windy Corner, and Guards Cemetery is a little west of these cross roads.
A little west of the crossroads known to the army as 'Windy Corner' was a house used as a battalion headquarters and dressing station. The cemetery grew up beside this house. The original cemetery is now Plots I and II and Rows A to S of Plot III. It was begun by the 2nd Division in January 1915, and used extensively by the 4th (Guards) Brigade in and after February. It was closed at the end of May 1916, when it contained 681 graves. After the Armistice it was increased when more than 2,700 graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields - in particular the battlefields of Neuve-Chapelle, the Aubers Ridge and Festubert - and from other small cemeteries.
VICTORIA CROSS: VIII.J.10, Major, John Mackenzie, VC, 1st Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment, this officer won his award at Ashanti in 1900.
Casualty Details: UK 3402, Canada 32, India 9, Total Burials: 3443
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