Historical Information (Source: CWGC)

Villemontoire is connected entirely with the victorious advance of the 15th (Scottish) and 34th Divisions, under French leadership, in the period from the 23rd July to the 2nd August 1918.  The cemetery was made, after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the battlefield and from several smaller burial grounds which had been made by the Burial Officers and units of the two Divisions

There are now over 600, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 100 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to eleven men of the Herefordshire Regiment and one of the Royal Scots who are known or believed to be buried among them.

Lieutenant FINDLAY MACFADYEN ROSS  MC / Major RUSSELL HERBERT FREEMAN  MC – Croix de Guerre

Major AUGUSTIN GEORGE RICHARD WHITEHOUSE  MC / Captain ARTHUR NELSON HAMPTON WEEKES  MC

Serjeant JOHN SCOTT  MM / Serjeant WALTER PORTER  MM / Serjeant A DOLAN  MM / Company Serjeant Major HUGH RALSTON  MM

Corporal ALEXANDER PATERSON  MM / Private CHARLES AUBREY SASSE  MM / Private W GOWANLOCK  MM

Lance Serjeant J B SYMONDS  DCM-MM / Company Serjeant Major W MONCUR  DCM / Regimental Serjeant Major JOHN SIMMONS  DCM

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE ALEXANDER SMITH  DSO / Lieutenant Colonel JOHN GRAHAM DOONER  DSO – Croix de Guerre

Lieutenant Colonel CHARLES EDWARD ARTHUR JOURDAIN  DSO