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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communal Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

LONGUENESSE (ST OMER) SOUVENIR Cemetery (Pas de Calais France)

Page 1 The Pictures

Page 2 List of Casualties


Pte Arthur Colligan 28/07/1918

Pte Percy Burton 27/06/1916 aged 19
He enlisted on 06/05/1915

Staff Nurse Agnes Murdoch Climie 30/09/1917 aged 32
She was killed during an air raid on the 58th (Scottish) General Hospital, St Omer, Fance. She was mentioned in dispatches by General Haig for "valuable services" in March 1916. At the time of the air raid, though not on duty, she apparently went to her ward to comfort her patients and it is recorded that just before she was killed she had been, "singing to a patient who was nervous".
Her cousin, William Benzie Forbes Climie, Air Gunner with 434 Squadron, RCAF, who died on the night 22/23 August 1943 is buried at Heverlee War Cemetery.
For her cousin, Tony Climie


L/Cpl Archie Anderson 04/10/1918 aged 34


2nd/Lt Herbert Crosley Carrs 08/10/1917 aged 24


Pte Arthur Richards 19/05/1918 aged 42 Arthur left a widow, Florence Richards and six children, Lily, George William, Mable, Nellie, Elsie and Harry, of whom the eldest was only 12 years. Local paper said: "Arthur seems to have been engaged in driving an ambulance containing wounded during the raid when he himself was hit."

Can you help me to identify this soldier, please ?

3 177 casualties

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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations