Location

The village of Écoust-St Mein is 16 kilometres south-east of Arras and the British Cemetery is a little to the right of the Croisilles road, 80 metres from the Communal Cemetery.

Historical Information

Écoust-St Mein was captured by the 8th and 9th Devons in a blizzard on 2 April 1917, lost on 21 March 1918, and retaken at the end of the following August by the 3rd Division.

The British Cemetery was then made, in continuation of a German Extension (now removed) of the communal cemetery.

The cemetery contains 151 burials of the First World War, eight of which are unidentified.

The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.

In the backround you can see the Military Cemetery

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There are three other CWGC Cemeteries within the commune.

Écoust Military Cemetery
HAC Cemetery
L'Homme Mort British Cemetery
Bullecourt 1917