Rossignol Wood Cemetery, Hebuterne

• Country France
• Total identified casualties 68 Find these casualties
• Region Pas de Calais
• Identified casualties from First World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.12957, Longitude: 2.66549

Location information

Hebuterne is a village which lies about 20 kilometres south-west of Arras. Rossignol Wood Cemetery lies approximately one kilometre north-east of the village, on the road between Gommecourt and Puisieux (D6).

Visiting information

ARRIVAL

The cemetery is signposted. The cemetery is located on the D6, 300 metres west of Owl Trench Cemetery.

PARKING

There is a layby for parking along the front of the perimeter wall. There is space for up to 6 vehicles.

It is possible for vehicles to park within 1 metre of the main entrance.

The ground is flat and firm with a red sandstone gravel surface.

ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE

The cemetery is surrounded by a low-level stone wall.

A semi-circular paved area with a 75 mm high step up from ground level is in front of the entrance.

The main entrance is a 1-metre wide opening between two stone pillars. Paving between the pillars leads to a paved area inside the entrance, level with the grass inside the cemetery. A black metal gate, approximately 1 metre wide, has a ring handle on the top left side, that is turned counter-clockwise to open. The gate opens into the cemetery.

The Cross of Sacrifice is at the rear of the cemetery opposite the entrance gate.

There is no Register Box or seating in the cemetery.

The internal cemetery paths are grass; the ground is flat and firm.

ALTERNATIVE ACCESS

There are no alternative entrances into the cemetery.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The cemetery is permanently open.

History information

Hebuterne village remained in Allied hands from March 1915, to the Armistice, although during the German advances in the summer of 1918, it was practically on the front line.

Rossignol Wood was taken by the Germans at the end of March 1918 and recovered in the following July. The cemetery was begun in March 1917, by the 46th Division Burial Officer, about 350 metres to the west of the wood. The German plot was added after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately to the south and south-west.

The cemetery contains 41 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them are unidentified. There are also 70 German war graves, 42 being unidentified.

The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.