LE CATEAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Le Cateau

Nord

 France

General Directions: Le Cateau is a small town approximately 27 kilometres east-south-east of Cambrai, and the Communal Cemetery is located on Rue de Fesmy. The cemetery is surrounded by a fifteen foot high wall upon which a CWGC plaque will be found. 

Le Cateau and the country West of it, were the scene of the Battle fought by the II Corps on the 26th August, 1914, against a greatly superior German force; and a monument has been erected 1 kilometre South-West of the town, near the road to Reumont, to commemorate the engagement. From that date until the evening of the 10th October, 1918, when the 5th Connaught Ranger rushed the town, it remained in German hands; and it was not cleared until a week later. It had been a German railhead and an important hospital centre. Le Cateau Communal Cemetery was used by the Germans for burying British dead of August and September, 1914 (70 of whom lie in the large grave in Plot III), and by the British forces in the last three months of 1918. 65 German graves were removed in 1922.

Casualty Details: UK 136, Canada 2, Australia 13, Total Burials: 151

Second Lieutenant

Alan Baird Cullerne. MC.

7th Bn. Queen's Own

(Royal West Kent Regiment).

23/10/1918, aged 28.

Plot III. B. 3.

Picture courtesy of his Great granddaughter Sara

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