Railway Cutting Cemetery Courcelles-Le-Comte
(Pas-de-Calais.)

COURCELLES-LE-COMTE, is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-deCalais, 16 kilometres South of Arras, between the roads to Bucquoy and Bapaume, and two kilometres North of the railway station at Achiet on the main line from Paris and Amiens to Arras and Lille. The village was taken by the 3rd Division on the 21 st August, 1918.

RAILWAY CUTTING CEMETERY is two kilometres South of the village, between the road to Achiet-le-Grand and the railway cutting on the main line. It was made after the capture of the village, and it contains the graves of 107 officers and men from the United Kingdom, belonging to the 2nd, 3rd, 37th and 63rd Divisions, who fell in August, 1918. The unnamed graves are 16 in number, and a special memorial is erected to one soldier from the United Kingdom believed to be buried among them.

The cemetery, which is in fact one long row of graves, covers an area of 650 square metres without the footpath leading to it. It is enclosed by a rubble wall.

Number of burials by Unit

Northumberland Fusiliers
23
  Royal Fusiliers - City of London Regt.
20
King's Liverpool Regt.
10
  Suffolk Regt.
10
Gordon Highlanders
5
  Royal Naval Division
4
Royal Scots Fusiliers
4
  14th Bn. London Regt. - London Scottish
3
King's Royal Rifle Corps
2
  King's Shropshire Light Infantry
2
Royal Irish Regt.
2
  Tank Corps
2
9th Lancers
1
  Highland Light Infantry
1
Machine Gun Corps - Infantry
1
  Royal Field Artillery
1
Royal Garrison Artillery
1
     
Identified burials
92
     
Unidentified UK burials:
15
     
Total burials
107
     

Plan of the Cemetery

Those having awards in this cemetery

Pte. Arthur John Bidwell M.M., 2nd Bn. Suffolk Regt. Died 21st Aug. 1918, aged 24. A.58

Cpl. W. Burns M.M., 13th Bn. The King's Liverpool Regt. Died 21st Aug. 1918. A.45

Cpl. A. Eatough M.M
., 2nd Div. Ammunition Col. Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 28th Aug. 1918. C.11

Cpl. John Scott M.M., 1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action 23rd Aug. 1918, aged 23. A.56