HABARCQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Habarcq
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Habarcq is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 12 kilometres west of Arras, a little south of the main Arras-St.Pol road. The Communal Cemetery is on the north side of the village on the road to Haute-Avesnes (D61), and the Extension is on the north and west side of the Communal Cemetery.
The extension to the communal cemetery was begun by French troops in 1914 and was used by them until March 1916. Commonwealth forces (XVII Corps) then took over this part of the front and field ambulances continued to bury in the extension using the plots which are now numbered I, V and VIII. In March 1917, the extension was closed, except for two later burials in Plot V.
Shot at Dawn: Private J McQuade, 18th Bn. Highland Light Infantry, executed for desertion on 06/11/1916, plot 8. J. 7.
Private H Flynn, 18th Bn. Highland Light Infantry, executed for desertion on 15/11/1916, plot 8. G. 7.
Casualty Details: UK 171, New Zealand 2, South Africa 6, France 378, Total Burials: 557
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