LE TROU AID POST CEMETERY
Fleurbaix
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Fleurbaix is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, five kilometres south-west of Armentieres and fourteen kilometres west of Lille. Le Trou is a hamlet of Fleurbaix, south of the village, on the side road, off the D171, known as the Rue-Petillon.
Le Trou Aid Post was established very early in the war. The cemetery was used between October 1914 and July 1915, and was described in November 1916 as being "a short distance behind the present support line". At the Armistice, it contained 123 burials and was then enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries to the east. The graves brought into the cemetery are mainly those of officers and men who died in the fighting at Le Maisnil (21 October 1914), the Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915), the Battle of Loos (25 September 1915), and the Attack at Fromelles (19-20 July 1916).
Casualty Details: UK 293, Canada 7, Australia 56, France 2, Total Burials: 358
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