Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Location
Region : Bethune, Pas-de-Calais, France
Latitude : 50.48296
Lontitude : 2.66828
CWGC Link : 53502
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.

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Cookstown Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait Gnr Thompson, William 281545 Royal Garrison Artillery 12/11/1917 Grave 3-A-18
Cemetery History
The COMMUNAL CEMETERY at Noeux-les-Mines was used by the Commonwealth forces (in succession to the French) from June 1915 to August 1917. The earlier burials were carried out by units and field ambulances but in April 1917, the 7th Casualty Clearing Station began to use the cemetery. It contains 980 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
The EXTENSION was begun in August 1917 and used until December 1918, chiefly by the 6th and 7th Casualty Clearing Stations. It contains 304 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 12 German war graves. The Commonwealth plot and extension were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Cemetery Links
No Link Reference Doc
1 Billiongraves Subscription website. Poor quality website and photos
2 Findagrave.com Grave photos
3 War Graves Photo Project War Graves Photographic Project
4 WWI Cemeteries Details of cemetery including some grave photos