Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Location
Region : Mazingarbe, Pas-de-Calais, France
Latitude : 50.47096754
Lontitude : 2.741683169
CWGC Link : 5400
Philosophe lies between Bethune and Lens. From the Lens-Bethune road (N43), follow the D165E road for 400 metres to a right turn. The cemetery lies to the left 100 metres along this track. The first CWGC sign for the cemetery is at the junction of the N43 and the D165E.

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Cookstown Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait 2nd Lieut Collins, Newton Henry Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 27/04/1916 Grave 1-C-9
2 Portrait Pte. Little, Peter 23668 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 02/04/1916 Grave 1-B-13
3 Portrait Portrait L/Corp Lord, Charles George 2612 Leinster Regiment 02/06/1916 Grave 1-D-5
4 Portrait Pte. McManus, Francis 27475 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 31/05/1916 Grave 1-D-27
5 Portrait Portrait Pte. O'Neill, John 20502 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 27/04/1916 Grave 1-D-18
6 Portrait Pte. Shields, George 23667 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 01/07/1916 Grave 1-F-30
7 Portrait Pte. Wilson, William 27041 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 28/04/1916 Grave 1-D-11
Cemetery History
The cemetery was started in August 1915. In 1916 it was taken over by the 16th (Irish) Division, who held the Loos Salient at the time, and many of their dead were brought back to the cemetery from the front line. Succeeding divisions used the cemetery until October 1918, and men of the same Division, and often the same battalion, were buried side by side.
After the Armistice, this cemetery was one of those used for the concentration of isolated graves from the Loos battlefield. The bodies of 41 men of the 9th Black Watch were brought from positions a little West of Loos, and those of 340 officers and men of other Regiments from different points in the communes of Cambrin, Auchy, Vermelles, Halluch and Loos.
There are now 1,996 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery, 277 of them unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
Cemetery Links
No Link Reference Doc
1 Findagrave.com Grave photos
2 War Graves Photo Project War Graves Photographic Project
3 Wikipedia - Philosophe British Cemetery Details of cemetery (Dutch)
4 WWI Cemeteries Details of cemetery including some grave photos