L'Homme Mort
Location
Éoust-St Mein is a village 10 kilometres north-east of Bapaume and L'Homme Mort is a hamlet nearly 3 kilometres to the south-west. The Cemetery is near the east side of the Braucourt-St Léger road (D36E).
Historical Information
The hamlet of L'Homme Mort saw fighting in March and August 1918.
Plot I, Row A, of the cemetery was made in August 1918; the rest of this Plot and the whole of Plot II were formed after the Armistice when 152 graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields.
The cemetery now contains 166 burials of the First World War, 104 of them unidentified.
Captain Pulteney Malcom
1st Bn Grenadier Guards
Died on 25th August 1918 aged 24
Only child of Lt Colonel P Malcolm, M.V.O., D.S.O., and Mrs Pulteney Malcolm
Grandson of General Sir G Malcolm, G.C.B. (a nephew to the three "Knights of Eskdale," as the Duke of Wellington called them)
Belonged to the Dumfriesshire (Eskdale) branch of the Malcolm family
Educated Summerfields (Oxford), Eton College (K.S.) and Oxford (Exhibitioner, C.C.C.)
Joined King's Own Scottish Borderers in August 1914, transferred to Grenadier Guards 1915
Was three times wounded
Was for a time Adjutant of Household Bn. at Windsor, and served with this Bn. on the Somme.
Grave: I A 1
Grenadier Guards Monument
Just outside the wall of the cemetery is this monument to Captain Malcom and his men.
To the honoured and cherished memory of
Captain Pulteney Malcom, commanding the King's Company, 1st or Grenadier Guards who gave his life leading his Company close to this spot on 25th August 1918 and is buried in the adjoining cemetery.
Also of the NCOs and Guardsmen who fell with him
C Drackett - I A 2
C Dixon- I A 3
Unknown - I A 4
A Roe - I A 5
Sgt A Wilson MM - I A 6
A Pascoe - I A 7
Unknown - I A 8
A McQuaigue - I A 9
A Priest - I A 10
Unknown - I A 11
W Cushen - I A 12
The Grenadier Guards
There are three other CWGC Cemeteries within the commune.
Écoust St Mein Military Cemetery
Écoust St Mein British Cemetery
HAC Cemetery