NAVES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Naves

Nord

France

General Directions: Naves is a small village about 5 kilometres north-east of Cambrai on the road to Saulzoir (D114). The Communal Cemetery is on the south side of the road a little south-west of the village at the entrance to the village coming from Cambrai.

The Extension was begun by the 49th (West Riding) Division in October, 1918, after the capture of the village on the 10th. The 31 graves then made are now in Plot V; Plots I to IV were made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from smaller cemeteries and from the battlefields of Cambrai. Among the graves thus concentrated were those of many Lancashire Fusiliers and King's Own Royal Lancasters who fell in August, 1914.

The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were removed to Naves Communal Cemetery Extension: Eswars Communal Cemetery German Extension, which contained the graves of seven soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada who fell in October, 1918. Hilltop Cemetery, Lesdain, between Lesdain and Seranvillers, containing the graves of 17 New Zealand and six German soldiers who fell in October, 1918. Maurois British Cemetery, on the Maurois-Maretz road, containing the graves of 15 South African soldiers who fell on the 14th October, 1918. Paillencourt British Cemetery, close to the Sensee river, containing the graves of twelve soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada who fell on the 16th October, 1918. Thun-St. Martin British Cemetery, in the middle of the village. Here were buried 18 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly of the 51st (Highland) Division) and three from Canada, who fell in October, 1918.

Victoria Cross: Corporal James McPhie, VC, 416th (Edinburgh) Field Company, Royal Engineers, died of wounds 14/10/1918, plot II. E. 4.

Casualty Details: UK 322, Canada 50, Australia 4, New Zealand 53, South Africa 15, Total Burials: 444

24748 Private

David Ross

7th Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

13/10/1918, aged 23.

Plot I. A. 17.

Son of James and Annie Ross nee Stevenson, of 19 Nimmo's Rows, New Stevenston, Lanarkshire. prior to enlisting David was a miner in James Nimmo's Collieries, Holytown, Lanarkshire.
 

Picture courtesy of great niece, Mary Garraton

23464 Private

Bert John Robinson

2nd Bn. Suffolk Regiment

08/10/1918, aged 27.

Son of Mrs. Harriet Robinson, of 29, Eden St., Cambridge

Plot I. F. 2

Picture courtesy of Andy Kin, great, great nephew

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