Loos Battlefield, Loos en Gohelle, France
The Cemetery contains the dead from the Battle of Loos in 1915 and also those before and after the battle. The memorial also has the names of 20,000 Officers and Men whose bodies were never found or able to be identified. One of which is John Kipling, son of Poet Rudyard Kipling.
The Cemetery is on the N943 road just outside Loos en Gohelle in the Pas de Calais region in Northern France.
Loos British Cemetery
1:10 Private Charles Edward Freeman
1:50 Private Leo Francis Gould
2:50 Lieutenant H. De Varennes
3:40 Soldat Jean Naveau
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Loos British Cemetery, France
Views of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Loos British Cemetery, in France where we will be live streaming the funeral of four Canadian soldiers who lost their lives during the 1st World War.
Tune into the Canadian Armed Forces Facebook page, 7:30 a.m. Thurs. Aug. 23.
Loos-en-Gohelle, France Commonwealth War Graves and Canadian Unknowns
We visited Loos-en-Gohelle to recce out locations for our Hill 70 investigation with our group in a few days. We visited the Commonwealth cemetery there and noted that most in that cemetery were unidentified bodies - 1990 unknowns compared to 890 known graves. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission will not mark a grave with the name unless they can absolutely identify the body. Loved ones, of course, need to be certain the stone they are visiting is their family member. Here's a short video of only some of the Canadian unknowns - of the 2800 or so in the cemetery there are 241 Canadian knowns compared to 209 unknowns.
Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais, France
An attempt at a low-level film of the Loos-en-Gohelle Dud Corner Cemetery, near to Arras in France. Many casualties of the Hohenzollern Redoubt battle of October 1915 lie here, or are remembered on its many memorial panels.
Battle of Loos Centenary, Loos Cemetery 26 Sept 2015
Battle of Loos Centenary, Loos Cemetery, France 26/09/15
Loos Cemetery
Went to this cemetery on my dads road. Sorry it's so shaky. I know it's a weird video.
Loos, November 2015
A visit to Great War memorial sites in Loos, France, in November 2015
26 September, 1915, Battle of Loos, 'Lone Tree', Walter Hitchcock - Centenary Visit
Read by Allan Hitchcock.
(With apologies for very poor sound.)
The CWGC Guide to the Battle of Loos
Our CWGC Historian, Dr Glyn Prysor, gives you an insight into the Battle of Loos.
The casualties on 25 September 1915 were the worst yet suffered in a single day by the British army.
Their graves and memorials are cared for by the CWGC throughout the Loos region of France.
Loos Battlefield France
360 view of the area around Dud Corner CWGC Cemetery and the Loos Battlefield (1915)incuding the Double Crassier. Men of the Munster Fusiliers buried here.
The Battle of Loos
In honor of Remembrance Day we remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty in World War 1.
This is the narration of a letter written by Private Joseph Barlow.
Clémenté Rabito - Amazing Grace Loos-en-Gohelle Battle of Loos Commemoration
Commémoration du 26 Septembre 2015 à Loos en Gohelle.
Camden, Dud Corner & Loos
The men from this slaughter (15th Highland Bridgade) are buried in these cemeteries. We look at the battlefield of Loos with members of the UK Western Front Association.
At Dud Corner is the grave of Capt. Anketell Moutray Read, VC (He won because he never recognised defeat)
Cimetière militaire de Loos en Gohelle (62) mont de Lens
Cimetière militaire de Loos en Gohelle (62) mont de Lens
- Loos British Cemetery (route de Lens, lieux-dits Mont de Lens et Entre les deux Chemins de Lens, superficie : 1 ha 18 a 47 ca). Le village de Loos-en-Gohelle a donné son nom à la bataille qui se tint du 25 septembre au 8 octobre 1915, durant laquelle le village fut enlevé aux allemands par les 15e(Scottish) et 47e (London) divisions britanniques. Ce cimetière a été ouvert par les corps canadien en avril 1917. Après l'Armistice, le cimetière fut largement agrandi par le regroupement des tombes de petits cimetières environnants. 2 850 soldats y reposent aujourd'hui (dont 2 848 tombés en 1914-1918 (2 402 britanniques et 445 canadiens) et un français, et 2 en 1939-1945 (1 britannique et 1 néo-zélandais). La majorité des hommes enterrés ici sont tombés durant la bataille de Loos.
Rappel historique : Loos-en-Gohelle est le nom officiel de la commune depuis le décret du 10 novembre 1937, Commune titulaire de la croix de guerre 14-18 (25 septembre 1920).
Après la Grande Guerre (1914-1918), la commune est citée à l'ordre de l'armée (25 septembre 1920) : « Loos, décombres fumants, a été complètement détruite par les bombardements. Malgré ses deuils nombreux, elle a montré une attitude digne et courageuse dans les épreuves et sous la domination ennemie, donnant un bel exemple d'inébranlable confiance dans le succès final ».
La ville est libérée de l'occupation ennemie le 15 août 1917. Au total, 4 600 soldats alliés trouvèrent la mort sur le territoire de la commune, 6 civils furent fusillés, 14 déportés.
Au début de la seconde guerre mondiale, Loos est le cantonnement des 2e et 3e bataillons du 8e R.I. de la 5e DIM. En octobre 1939, c'est une unité britannique qui y prend position (RAOC)
Battle of Loos Centenary 2015
Battle of Loos Centenary 26/09/2015 Loos-en-Gohelle, France
History battle of loos video
Work cited:
Broman, Josh. The Great War. New York: Longman. 1985.
Ploegsteert Memorial (Berks Cemetery Extension)
Lt William Neve Monteith. 25 September 1915 Action at Bois Grenier subsidiary to The Battle of Loos.
Church of Scotland Minister at Elie Parish Church enlisted September 1914. Commission in 6th Rifle Battalion.
Fell on 25th September, was Platoon Commander in C Company 2nd Rifle Battalion. His body was never found. Remembered at Plugstreet Memorial along with many of his fellow Rifles.
18 October 2014