ST. VENANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

St. Venant

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: St. Venant is a town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 15 kilometres north-west of Bethune. The Communal Cemetery is 1 kilometre east of the town. Leave the church and head east crossing the main road at the base of the bridge over the river. After 500 metres the car park for the Communal Cemetery is found on the left hand side.

From January, 1915 to October, 1917, British and Indian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at St. Venant. In April, 1918, in the Battles of the Lys, the Germans advanced half-way between Merville and St. Venant, but the latter town remained in British hands. On the West side of St. Venant Communal Cemetery is the Indian Plot (I), used from January to July, 1915; behind that is a French Military Plot; and behind the French Plot is Plot II, used from August, 1915 to December, 1916. Two British graves are in a civilian plot.

Casualty Details: UK 165, Canada 1, South Africa 2, India 85, Total Burials: 253

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