OUTTERSTEENE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Bailleul
Nord
France
General Directions: Outtersteene is a village about 5 kilometres south-west of Bailleul. The Communal Cemetery Extension is north-east of the village on the road to Bailleul. From Bailleul follow the D.23 to Outtersteene, the cemetery is on the right hand side of the road just as you approach the outskirts of the town.
Outtersteene was captured by the III Corps on 13 October 1914 but no Commonwealth burials took place there for nearly three years. In August 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, the 2nd, 53rd and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations came to Outtersteene, and the first and last of these remained until March 1918. The hamlet was captured by the Germans on 12 April 1918, and retaken by the 9th, 29th and 31st Divisions, with the ridge beyond it, on 18 and 19 August, but the cemetery was not used again during hostilities. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery extension from the battlefields surrounding Outtersteene and from certain small cemeteries.
Casualty Details: UK 1142, Canada 4, Australia 240, New Zealand 2, South Africa 1, France 2, Total Burials: 1391
791 Corporal
Andrew John Moore
10th Bn. Australian Infantry
A. I. F.
12/05/1918, aged 31.
Son of John Stirling Moore and Isabella Moore; husband of Lily Moore,
of "The Salisbury," 90, St. Martin's Lane, London, England. Native of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia.
Plot I. F. 31.
Picture courtesy of Judith Ann Kettle of Brisbane, Australia, Great niece of this soldier
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