For information about the fighting here see the entry for Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery. The old chateau grounds at Potijze are the site of three Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries containing over 850 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. Potijze Chateau Grounds, Potijze Chateau Lawn, and Potijze Chateau Wood cemeteries were all formed in the spring of 1915 and used for the burial of Commonwealth soldiers until 1918.
The architectural features of the cemeteries were designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in the 1920s.
There is one Falkirk and District man buried here.
Cemetery Location
See Potijze Chateau Grounds entry.
FALKIRK AND DISTRICT MEN BURIED HERE
Falkirk
13870 Private Christopher Jones
1st battalion, Scots Guards
Age 37
5.4.16
B.17
Son of William & Margaret Hastie Jones. Husband of Jane Mungall Jones, 5 Woodlands Crescent, Falkirk
Burials
Chateau Wood Cemetery was used from April 1915 to June 1917, and three times in 1918. It contains 157 Commonwealth war graves. In Row A are buried 46 officers and men of the 2nd Hampshire Regiment, and in Rows E and F, 19 of the 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who fell in a gas attack in August 1916.
UK- 145
Canadian – 6
Unnamed - 6
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