ORS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Ors

Nord

France

General Directions: The village of Ors is between Le Cateau and Landrecies. The Communal Cemetery lies to the north-west of the village. It should not be confused with Ors British Cemetery which is 1 kilometre north-east of the church.

Ors was cleared by the 6th Division on the 1st November, 1918. Buried within this cemetery is the poet Wilfred Owen.

Victoria Cross: Second Lieutenant James Kirk, VC, 10th Attached 2nd Bn. Manchester Regiment, killed in action 04/11/1918, row A. 22. 

Lieutenant Colonel James Neville Marshall, VC, MC and bar, Irish Guards attached 16th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, killed in action 04/11/1918,  his grave is in line with row A. 22.

Casualty Details: UK 63, Total Burials: 63

64914 Private

Hugh Melling

16th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers

04/11/1918, aged 19.

Son of Thomas and Alice Melling of Hesketh Lane, Tarleton, Lancashire

Row A. 6.

Picture courtesy of Mary Melling, great niece.

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