LONGUENESSE
SOUVENIR CEMETERY,
ST. OMER,
Historical
Information: St. Omer was the
General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force from October 1914 to
March 1916. Lord Roberts died there in November 1914. The town was a
considerable hospital centre with the 4th, 10th, 7th Canadian, 9th Canadian and
New Zealand Stationary Hospitals, the 7th, 58th (Scottish) and 59th (Northern)
General Hospitals, and the 17th, 18th and 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty
Clearing Stations all stationed there at some time during the war. St. Omer
suffered air raids in November 1917 and May 1918, with serious loss of life.
The Commonwealth section of the cemetery contains 2,874 Commonwealth burials of
the
Sjt
SD/1429 Herbert PATTENDEN
"A" Coy. 12th Bn.
Born:
Enlisted:
Age: 23
Died of wounds:
Son of
Thomas and Mary Pattenden, of 52,
Grave Reference: II. C. 31.
Sjt SD/1910 Ernest James SCOTT
12th Bn.
Born: Regent's Park, Middx
Enlisted:
Died
of wounds:
Grave
Reference: II. C. 39.
L/Cpl SD/2654Samuel Howard COOMBS
13th Bn.
Born: Dulwich,
Enlisted:
Died
of wounds:
Son of
Samuel and Sarah Mary Coombs, of 163, New
Grave
Reference: II. C. 39.
Cpl
SD/3375 Robert IVERMEE
13th Bn.
Age: 28
Born: Kilburn, Middx
Enlisted:
Died of wounds:
Grave Reference: II. C. 40.
Husband of Alice D. Lacey
(formerly Ivermee), of 7,
Pte SD/2236 Cecil Alexander
John Alfred MONCUR
12th Bn.
Age: 22
Born:
Enlisted:
Died
of wounds:
Only son of
Mrs. A. Moncur, of 1, Hampton Terrace,
Native of
Grave
Reference: II. C. 23.
Pte SD/3643 Frederick OSBORNE
13th Bn.
Age: 34
Born:
Enlisted:
Died of wounds:
Son of Anthony and Matilda Osborne, of
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. C. 41.
Pte SD/1434 Edwin Benjamin PHIPPS
12th Bn.
Age: 18
Born:
Enlisted:
Died of wounds:
Son of Benjamin and Annie L. Phipps, of
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. C. 25.
Pte SD/2386 Albert Bert REEVES
12th Bn.
Born:
Enlisted:
Died of wounds:
Grave Reference: II. C. 22.
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