Prospect Hill Cemetery

Location

Gouy is a village to the east of the road between Cambrai and St. Quentin. Prospect Hill Cemetery is about 1.5 kilometres east of the village on the north side of the road to Beaurevoir.

Historical Information

On the 3rd October, 1918, the 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry captured Prospect Hill, after Le Catelet and Gouy had been taken by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps.

The cemetery was made by the 50th Division and the 18th Field Ambulance immediately after; it contained, in its original form (Plot I), the graves of 78 officers and men, chiefly of the units which had won the ground.

It was increased after the Armistice by the concentation of graves, mainly from the battlefields North of Gouy, almost exclusively of men who fell in October, 1918.

There are now over 500, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, one-fifth from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to one soldier from the United Kingdom believed to be buried among them.

A group of graves in Plot IV, Row F, are identified as a whole but not individually, and each of them is marked with the words, "Buried near this spot."

The Cemetery covers an area of 2,068 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall.

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