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| Cemetery: | RUE-DU-BACQUEROT No.1 MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIEPas de Calais, France |
| Grave or Reference Panel Number: | II. J. 19. |
| Location: | Laventie is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 6 kilometres south-west of Armentieres and 11 kilometres north of La Bassee. Rue-du-Bacquerot No.1 Military Cemetery is 3 kilometres south of Laventie on the north side of the road to La Couture. Leave Laventie on the D174. At the junction with the D169, which is 2 kilometres from the church, turn right, cross the D173 and continue straight on for another 1.5 kilometres, then turn right into the farmyard. The cemetery is straight in front of you. |
| Historical Information: | The Rue-du-Bacquerot runs South-East of the village, from the Estaires-La Bassee road towards Fleurbaix; and the position of this road close behind the British front trenches, during the greater part of the War, made it the natural line of a number of small British cemeteries. One of these, begun by the Indian Corps in November, 1914, was the nearest to the Estaires-La Bassee road, and became known as No. 1. The cemetery was used until May, 1917, and for short periods in 1918, by the units holding the line; and after the Armistice the small Indian plots were enlarged by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and from smaller burials grounds. There are now over 600, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 60 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to twelve soldiers. The cemetery (excluding the short access path) covers an area of 3,528 square metres. It is divided by a road, and both parts are enclosed by stone rubble walls. Nineteen of the Indian graves were brought in from RUE-DES-CHAVATTES INDIAN CEMETERY, LACOUTURE. |
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