POINT-DU-JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY
Athies
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Leave St-Laurent Blagny on the D42 (Athies to Biache St Vaast) and drive into the village of Athies-les-Arras. After 500 metres take a left turn onto the Rue du Chauffour. Continue for 1.2 kilometres down a small track and the cemetery will be seen on the right.
Athies was captured by the 9th (Scottish) Division, which included the South African Brigade, on 9 April 1917. It remained in Allied hands until the end of the war. Point-du-Jour was a house on the road from St. Laurent-Blangy to Gavrelle and by 1917 it had become a German redoubt, captured by the 34th Division on 9 April. Two cemeteries were made on the right of the road from St. Laurent-Blangy to Point-du-Jour, No. 1 Cemetery becoming the present Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery. It was used from April to November 1917, and again in May 1918, and contained at the Armistice 82 graves (now part of Plot I). It was then enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries north, east and south of Arras.
Casualty Details: UK 704, Canada 14, New Zealand 2, South Africa 74, France 3, Total Burials: 797
746 Lance Corporal
Theodore Charles Hook MM
2nd Regiment, South African Infantry
09/04/1917, aged 28.
Son of Charles William Frederick Hook, late of Wells, Norfolk, England.
Plot III. H. 17.
He was a Lewis Gunner in 'A' company. Wounded in Action 1916 Egypt. MM awarded for actions at Butte De Warlencourt, 12/10/1916
(Photo from Killie Campbell Africana Library, provided by Bernard Harris)
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