Cross of Sacrifice at Le Trou Aid Post CWGC Cemetery of the Great War near Fleurbaix France
Le Trou Aid Post was established very early in the war. The cemetery was used between October 1914 and July 1915, and was described in November 1916 as being “a short distance behind the present support line”. At the Armistice, it contained 123 burials. The cemetery was enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries to the east. La Haute Loge British Cemetery, Le Maisnil was about 400 metres East of the cross roads at Le Maisnil. It contained the graves of 80 officers and men of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 1st Middlesex, who fell on the 21st October 1914. These units, after holding out against superior forces, were forced to retire on the evening of the 21st and their dead were buried by the enemy on the 22nd. The graves brought into the cemetery are mainly those of officers and men who died in the fighting at Le Maisnil (21 October 1914), the Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915), the Battle of Loos (25 September 1915), and the Attack at Fromelles (19-20 July 1916). There are now 356 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 207 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate five casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Within the cemetery is the grave of Brigadier General Arthur Lowry Cole who was killed during the first attempt to take Fromelles on 9th May is also one French war grave. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
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Location: Rue du Petillon, 62840 Fleurbaix, France
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