CWGC Cemetery: MONT NOIR MILITARY CEMETERY, ST. JANS-CAPPEL

Visiting Information

The location or design of this site make wheelchair access impossible. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our enquiries department on 01628 634221.

Local Information

St. Jans-Cappel is a village 3 kilometres north of Baillieul. Leave St. Jans-Cappel on the D223 heading north. Mont-Noir Military Cemetery is on the southern slope of the hill to the left of the D223. It is reached by a 100 metre track which is unsuitable for private cars.

Historical Information

The hill was captured by the Cavalry Corps on the 13th October, 1914, and held throughout the Battles of the Lys, 1918. On the North side of the Berthen-Westoutre road, is the Battle Memorial of the 34th Division, marking the final position of Divisional Headquarters in the Battles of the Lys. The Cemetery was made in April-September, 1918, and at the Armistice it contained 91 British graves and 33 French (all of the 26th Dragoons or the 88th Infantry Regiment). It was then enlarged by the concentration of British and French graves (including one of November, 1914) from the battlefields immediately South of it. There are now over 100, 1914-18 and 2 of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 15 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified. The cemetery covers an area of 1,315 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall. WOLFHOEK BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. JANS-CAPPEL, from which the graves of 23 United Kingdom soldiers were transferred to Mont-Noir Military Cemetery, was by the roadside, nearly 200 metres South-West of the hamlet of Wolfhoek. It was made in August-September, 1918, mainly by the 36th (Ulster) Division. Near the centre of the cemetry are the graves of two unidentified British soldiers of the 1939-1945 War.