Chapelle-D'armentieres Old Military Cemetery, Nord, France

Chapelle-D'armentieres Old Military Cemetery, Nord, France

Chapelle-D'armentieres Old Military Cemetery, Nord, France - The village of La Chapelle-d'Armentieres was in the hands of Commonwealth forces from October 1914 until the fall of Armentieres on 10 April 1918. It was retaken in the following October. During the Allied occupation, the village was very close to the front line and its cemeteries were made by fighting units and field ambulances in the earlier days of trench warfare. Chapelle-d'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery was begun in October 1914 by units of the 6th Division and used until October 1915. The cemetery contains 103 First World War burials three of them unidentified. The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.

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  • Profile picture for Herbert Pomeroy Cox

    Born 1891

    Died 1914

    British Army 2089 Private London Regiment 1/16th lond Battalion

  • Profile picture for Amos Mann

    Died 1915

    British Army 50631 Gunner Royal Field Artillery

  • Profile picture for Charles Gormley

    Born 1886

    Died 1915

    British Army 3/7980 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 3rd Battalion

    British Army 3/7980 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st Battalion