Cemeteries where poets, writers, musicians, artists, etc. killed in WW1 are buried

I have just started researching for this list which was inspired by Pierre Vandervelden's list

I am only just beginning to research the poets who were killed in the First World War and hope to add to this list as time goes by.

If you have visited any of the graves and would like to send me photographs to post, please get in touch.

1.     BELGIUM AND FRANCE

AGNY MILITARY CEMETERY, rue Marc Lanvin, 62217 Agny, Nord Pas de Calais

Edward THOMAS, kia Easter Monday, 9th April 1917, Arras

ARRAS MEMORIAL, Bd. de General de Gaulle, 62000 Arras, Artois

Charles Walter BLACKALL, The Buffs, affiliated to The South Staffordshire Regiment, kia 25th March 1918

Clifford FLOWER, Royal Field Artillery, kia 20th April 1917

Bernard PITT, Border Regiment, 30^th April 1916

Theodore Percival Cameron WILSON, Sherwood Foresters, kia 23rd March 1918, commemorated ARRAS Memorial

ARTILLERY WOOD, Near Boezinge, (8904 Ypres), Belgium

Ellis Humphrey EVANS – pen-name Hedd Wyn - kia 31st July 1917 Passchendaele

Francis LEDWIDGE, kia 31st July 1917 Passchendaele

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Chemin du Moulin, 62690 AUBIGNY-EN-ARTOIS

Alec Corry Vully de CANDOLE, Wiltshire Regiment (att. Machine Gun Corps), kia 3rd September 1918

Alexander James (Hamish) MANN, Black Watch, wounded 9th April 1917, died 10th April 1917 

AVELUY WOOD (LANCASHIRE DUMP) CEMETERY, 80300 MESNIL-MARTINSART, France

Francis Kennard BLISS, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, kia 28th September 1916, Thiepval; Grave Reference: Row J, Grave 19.


BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY, St. Laurent-Blongy, Pas de Calais

Frank C. LEWIS, Royal Naval Air Service, killed 20th August 1917

Isaac ROSENBERG, Suffolk Regiment, 1^st April 1918

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, 101 Chemin Saint-Berlin, 62620 Barlin, Pas de Calais

William Maunsell SCANLAN, Canadian, 1^st Canadian Contingent, 9^th April 1917

BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, Rue d’Albert, 80300 Bécordel-Becourt, Somme

Hugh Reginald (Rex) FRESTON, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 24^th January 1916

BELLICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, Bellicourt, Aisne

*Vivian Telfer PEMBERTON, MC, Royal Garrison Artillery, kia 7th October 1918

BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais

John H.M. HARDYMAN, DSO, MC, Somerset Light Infantry, 24^th August 1918

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas de Calais

*The Hon. Julien Henry Francis GRENFELL, DSO, Captain, 1st Royal Dragoons, wounded 13th May 1915, died 26th May 1915

BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Bouzincourt, Somme

Donald Fredric GOOLD JOHNSON, Suffolk Regiment, 15^th July 1916

CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, Rue Carnot, 62153 SOUCHEZ, Pas de Calais

Robert Harold BECKH, East Yorkshire Regiment, 15^th August 1916

*Charles John Beech MASEFIELD, MC, North Staffordshire Regiment, kia 2nd July 1917, buried CABERET-ROUGE British Cemetery, cousin of poet John Masefield

CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, 80360 Longueval, Somme

Hugh STEWART SMITH, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 18^th August 1916

CHAUCONIN-NEUFMONTIERS MILITARY CEMETERY, 77 Seine-et-Marne

Charles PEGUY, French Poet, kia 5th September 1914 Battle of the Marne



CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, 54 avenue Roger Salengro, 59280 Armentières, Nord, France

William Ambrose SHORT, CMG, Royal Field Artillery, kia 21^st June 1917

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY, 8670 Koksijde, BELGIUM

Thomas Ernest HULME, Honourable Artillery Company December 1914, wounded 1915, killed 28^th September 1917 (commissioned into the Naval Siege Battery, Royal Marine Artillery)

DEVONSHIRE CEMETERY, MANSEL COPSE, Mametz, Somme

William Noel HODGSON, Devonshire Regiment, 1^st July 1916

DELSAUX FARM CEMETERY, 62124 BEUGNY, Pas de Calais, FRANCE

David G. Collins, Guardsman No.  31029. Grenadier Guards, died of wounds 11th October 1918

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, Kerkstraat, 8900 Ypres, BELGIUM

Leslie George RUB, Australian, 23^rd September 1917

Robert William STERLING, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 23^rd April 1915

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, D339, 62181 Etrun, Pas de Calais

John Eugene CROMBIE, Gordon Highlanders, kia 23rd April 1917

DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY, NEAR YPRES

Thomas Ewert MITTON, Royal Engineers, killed 24th December 1917

ESQUELBECQ MILITARY CEMETERY, Esquelbecq, Nord, France

*Claude Quale Lewis PENROSE, MC and Bar, Royal Garrison Artillery, died of wounds 1st August 1918

ESTREE-SIANT-DENIS, Oise, Picardie

Jean ARBOUSSET, French Poet


ETRUN COMMUNAL CHURCHYARD, nr. Arras

Jacques de CHOUDENS, kia 13th June 1915, Notre Dame de Lorette


EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, 80 Colincamps, Somme

John William STREETS, York & Lancashire Regiment, kia 1^st July 1916

FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ, 80300 Bazentin, Somme, Picardie

Robert STEWART SMYLIE, Royal Scots Fusiliers, kia 14^th July 1916

FRICOURT NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, Fricourt, Somme

Alfred Victor RATCLIFFE, West Yorkshire Regiment, 1^st July 1916

GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, 80300 Bray-sur-Somme, Somme

Leslie A. COULSON, 2^nd London Regiment, 8^th October 1916

GUILLEMONT ROAD CEMETERY, 80360 Guillemont, Somme

Raymond ASQUITH, London Regiment, 15^th September 1916

Edward Wyndham TENNANT, Grenadier Guards, kia 22^nd September 1916

HAC - Honourable Artillery Company - CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST.-MEIN, Pas de Calais

Arthur Graeme WEST, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, kia 3rd April 1917

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, Mericourt-l’Abbé, Somme

William Eric BERRIDGE, Somerset Light Infantry, 20^th August 1916

HERMIES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY, rue Saint-Michel, Hermies, PAS DE CALAIS

William Oliphant DOWN, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 22^nd May 1917

HIGHLAND CEMETERY, ROCLINCOURT, Pas de Calais

Walter Lightowler WILKINSON, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, kia 9th April 1917

LE BUCQUIERE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais

Robert Ernest (R.E.) VERNEDE, Rifle Brigade, kia Eastern Monday, 9th April 1917, Arras

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France

Frank Percival Dixon (1898 – 1918) – Canadian WW1 soldier poet; Grave Reference: II. F. 10.

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, Belgium 

Leonard Comer WALL, First West Lancashire Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, Ypres, 9th June 1917                                               

LIHONS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, Somme

Alan SEEGER, French Foreign Legion, 1st July 1916, Somme, American poet, lies in an Ossuary in LIHONS French National Cemetery

LOOS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, 62750 Loose-en-Gohelle, Pas de Calais

Charles Hamilton SORLEY, Suffolk Regiment, 13^th October 1915

Claude Frank Lethbridge TEMPLAR, Gloucestershire Regiment, kia 4^th June 1918

LOUVENCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, 2 rue de l’Eglise, 80560 Louvencourt, Somme

Rolland Aubrey LEIGHTON, Worcester Regiment, died of wounds 23rd December 1915, Héburturne, buried in LOUVENCOURT Military Cemetery (Vera Brittain’s fiancé - at school with her brother Edward, who was killed on the Italian Front)

MAZINGARBE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, 3 rue de Carency, 62670 Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais

Cyril Morton HORNE, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 27^th January 1916

Bernard Freeman TROTTER, Leicestershire Regiment, kia 7^th May 1917

MARTINSARTS BRITISH CEMETERY, La Hotte, 80380 Martinsart, Mesait, Somme

Frederick Septimus KELLY, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Australian-born musician, composer, rower, Olympic God Medallist, friend of Rupert Brooke, kia November 1916


MENDINGHEN MILITARY CEMETERY, Belgium 

Arthur Hugh SIDGWICK, Royal Garrison Artillery, kia 17th September 1917, near Ypres

MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, Menenstraat, 8900 Ypres, BELGIUM

Tom BRANDON, 13th May 1915, Ypres

The Hon. Gerald William GRENFELL, Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade, 2 Bn., 30th July 1915, Ypres

Sydney HALE, 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 31st July 1915, Zouave Wood

Walter Scott Stuart LYON, Royal Scots, 8^th May 1915, Ypres

The Hon. Colwyn Erasmus Arnold PHILIPPS, MC, Captain, Royal Horse Guards, 13^th May 1915, Panel 3

Gerald George SAMUEL, Royal West Kent Regiment, 7th June 1917

METZ-EN-COUTURE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais

*Patrick SHAW-STEWART, Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, kia 30^th December 1917 (Friend of Rupert Brooke)

ORIVAL WOOD CEMETERY, Flesquières, Nord

Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Seaforth Highlanders, 21^st November 1917, (Cambrai)

ORS VILLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Ors, Nord

Wilfred Salter OWEN, Manchester Regiment, 4^th November 1918

PERE LACHAISE CEMETERY, MONTMARTRE, PARIS

Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, French Poet, French Army, wounded 17^th March 1916 died 9^th November 1918

Antoine YVAN, French Poet, French Army, kia 30th August 1914

POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY, 8920 Langemark-Poelkapelle, BELGIUM

Hugh Gordon LANGTON, musician, son of J. Gordon Langton and Emily Langton, of 9E, Hyde Park Mansions, London;   husband of Una M. Langton, of "Glendura," 92, Hornsey Lane, London. A pupil of Professors Secvik (Prague), Wirth (Berlin), and Auer (Russia). First initiate of the Gordon Langton Lodge, No.3069. (Unusually, the personal inscription on his headstone consists of a piece of music)."

POZIERES MEMORIAL, Ovillers-la-Boiselle, Somme, France

Colin MITCHELL, Rifle Brigade, 22^nd March 1918

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM), West Flanders, Belgium

George Upton ROBINS, Captain, 3 Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment, attached 2 Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment, killed in action 5th May 1915

SAILLY-SAILLISEL BRITISH CEMETERY, Sailly-Saillisel, Somme

*J.A. GRAY, DCM, Royal Berkshire Regiment, kia 4th March 1917

SAINT-REMY-LA-CALONNE

Alain FOURNIER (Henri-Alban FOURNIER) kia 22nd September 1914 - French poet and writer


ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime

Richard DENNYS, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, wounded 12^th July died 24^th July 1916

Francis St. Vincent MORRIS, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, kia 29th April 1917, (formerly Sherwood Foresters)

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY NO. 2, BEAUMONT-HAMEL, 62116 Hébuterne, SOMME

Henry Lionel FIELD, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1^st July 1916

Gilbert WATERHOUSE, Essex Regiment, 1^st July 1916

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, D73, Thiepval, Somme

Tom KETTLE, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 9^th September 1916

H.H. MUNRO (‘Saki’), Royal Fusiliers, 13^th November 1916

Alexander ROBERTSON, Sheffield Bn. York & Lancaster Regiment, 1^st July 1916

Nicholas Herbert TODD, London Regiment, 7^th October 1916

Bernard Charles De Boismaison WHITE, (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers, kia 1st July 1916

Cyril W. WINTERBOTHAM, Gloucestershire Regiment, 27^th August 1916

TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Vijfwegstraat, 89802, ZONNEBEKE, BELGIUM

William Robert HAMILTON, Coldstream Guards (attached Guards Machine Gun Regiment), kia 12th October 1917

*John Ebenezer STEWART, MC, South Staffordshire Regiment, kia 26th April 1918, Panel 85

Eric Fitzwater WILKINSON, MC, Captain, West Yorkshire Regiment, kia 9th October 1917, (Passchendaele).

VAUX EN AMIENOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Somme

John Watt SIMPSON, b. 10th November 1888, killed 8th December 1916, Amiens, Somme, 

VERMANDOVILLERS GERMAN WAR CEMETERY, 80789, Somme

Alfred LICHTENSTEIN, German, 25^th September 1914

Reinhard SORGE, German, 20^th July 1916

VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL IN VIS-EN-ARTOIS MILITARY CEMETERY, HAUCOURT, Pas de Calais

John Stephen Marcus BAKER, 7th London Regiment, kia 8th August 1918

Henry Lamont SIMPSON, Lancashire Fusiliers, 29th August 1918

VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY, 8908 Ypres, BELGIUM

Harold PARRY, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, kia 6th May 1917, Ypres

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO. 3, Henhuisstraat, 8902 Ypres, BELGIUM

*J. BROWN, MC, Seaforth Highlanders, kia 11th April 1918, Grave Reference: Enclosure No. 3

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, F-62128 Wancourt, Pas de Calais

C.S.M. William H. LITTLEJOHN, Middlesex Regiment, kia 10th April 1917

WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, Saulty, Pas de Calais

Geoffrey Bache SMITH, Lancashire Fusiliers, kia 3rd December 1916

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, 62930 Wimereux, Pas de Calais

John McCRAE, Canadian Medical Corps and Canadian Royal Artillery, died 28^th January 1918 (McCrae’s famous poem “In Flanders Fields” inspired American WW1 poet Moina Belle Michael’s red poppy in remembrance campaign) 

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COLINCAMPS

Maurice BERTRAND, French poet (1881 - 1914), killed 7th October 1914, Colincamps, Somme, France; he was from Paris.  The French had a military cemetery - Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps - that was taken over by the British later in WW1.

2. ELSEWHERE

BASRA WAR MEMORIAL, Iraq

Gerald Caldwell SIORDET, Rifle Brigade, killed 9th February 1917, Mesopotamia 


KOPRIVSHTITSA, Bulgaria,  

Dimcho Debelyanov, Bulgarian Army. Killed 2nd October 1916 near Gorno Karadjvo.  His body was taken to Koprivshtitsa for re-burial in 1931.

SKYROS ISLAND, AEGEAN SEA, GREECE

Rupert BROOKE (1887 - 1915) - Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; served during the evacuation from Antwerp in 1914.  Hood Battalion.  Died on the voyage to Gallipoli on 23rd April 1915.   Buried in a grave on Skyros Island, Greece.

 RICHMOND CEMETERY, SURREY, United Kingdom

 Arthur Lewis JENKINS, Royal Flying Corps, killed 31st December 1917

WALLASEY RAKE LANE CEMETERY, WALLASEY, United Kingdom

 Arthur Geoffrey Nelson WALL, Royal Flying Corps, killed 6th August 1917


GREEN HILL CEMETERY, SULVA BAY, GALLIPOLI, TURKEY

Lieutenant Nowell Oxland, 6th Border Regiment, killed on 9th August 1915. 

HUNGARY 

Zsennye in Vas County, Hungary - Count Ferenc Békássy (1893 – 1915) – Hungarian Soldier Poet who wrote poetry in both Hungarian and English.

SEEKING INFORMATION RE GRAVES OF

Battle of Cambrai – Gerrit Engelke - German poet killed 13th October 1918

Kurd Adler – 6^th July 1916 - German soldier poet killed during the Somme Offensive on 6th July 1916.