SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN THE CEMETERY AT MARÆUIL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 473, 16 August 1915, Page 7

SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN THE CEMETERY AT MARÆUIL.

The advance of the French at Neuville St. Vaast and Souchez ivas not, as may be well imagined, allowed to proceed without desperate resistance from the enemy. But if the toll of French dead was heavy —and indeed it was—that of the Germans was particularly so. Marceuil, where many of the French dead are interred, is a small village about three miles to the north-west of Arras; the cemetery stands on a slight eminence actually overlooking the scene of much furious fighting. From this point to the village of Neuville St. Vaast, where, the gallant dead fell, is about four miles.