WWI St. Mary dressing station cemetery

ST. MARY'S A. D. S. CEMETERY Haisnes Pas de Calais France General Directions: St Mary's cemetery is located in the vicinity of Haisnes which lies between the towns of Lens and La Bassee in the Pas-de-Calais. Although the Cemetery lies in open farmland, there are neighbouring towns of Vermelles, Loos-en-Gohelle and Hulluch. The village of Haisnes was reached, or nearly reached, by the 9th (Scottish) and 7th Divisions on the 25th September, 1915, the first day of the Battle of Loos; and parts of the commune were the scene of desperate fighting in the Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt (13th-15th October, 1915). No further advance was made in this sector until October, 1918, when the enemy withdrew his line. "St. Mary's Advanced Dressing Station" was established, during the Battle of Loos, and the cemetery named from it is at the same place. The cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the battlefield of Loos; the great majority of the graves are those of men who fell in September and October, 1915. The only defined burial ground from which graves were brought to this cemetery was: Loos Communal Cemetery, on the South-West side of the town, in which nine soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in February, 1916, and which was subsequently ruined by artillery fire. There was at one time a French cemetery of 800 graves on the opposite side of the road; but in 1922 these graves were removed to Notre Dame-de-Lorette French National Cemetery. Casualty Details: UK 1791, Canada 19, Total Burials: 1810
Burial site of Kipling's son