Rosiéres Communal Cemetery Extension
The Rosières Communal Cemetery Extension, begun by Canadian troops in 1918 and later enlarged, is a small rectangular plot of symmetrically arranged graves along a central path to the Cross of Sacrifice, entered through Goldsmith‑type stone gate‑pillars set in a hedge and closed by a rear wall with three fruit trees.
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Description
The extension to the municipal cemetery was begun by Canadian troops in August 1918 when Rosières was captured from the Germans for the second time. The first graves lie in plot i, rows a-e. After the war, the cemetery was further extended with graves from the battlefield in the vicinity and from small cemeteries.
The rectangular field with graves has a central path from the entrance to the Cross of Sacrifice. The graves have been laid out symmetrically around this path in three rows of ten to twelve graves, six rows behind one another. The entrance is formed by a large stone plateau with two ‘gate pillars’ on either side of the entrance, a solution that assistant architect Goldsmith often applied for Lutyens, as in Monchy for example. The entrance has been incorporated in a hedge. On the short side, the cemetery is terminated with a low wall with three fruit trees in front of it. (Geurst, 2010, p.400)
Bibliography
Geurst, J. (2010) Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.
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