A very pretty little cemetery near Arras, set at the back of a housing estate and well worth a visit. As well as Lyonel Jacobson MC there are two other particularly interesting graves. One is of 2nd Lieutenant I. ap R Owen of the Royal Flying Corps whose gravestone says he was shot down over that area single-handedly engaging five enemy aircraft. The other is of Charles Kirman who was shot at dawn for desertion. When we visited, there was a poignant family inscription in the visitors' book detailing how he had fought and been wounded in many battles, and asking: "Who was the enemy?"
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