Additional Information:

Son of Mrs. J. W. P. Pittam, of 80, Greame St., Moss Side, Manchester.

Cemetery:

GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY, Nord, France

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

I. H. 39.

Location:

Godewaersvelde is a village near the Belgian border, about 16 kilometres south-west of Ieper (in Belgium), and is half-way between Poperinge (in Belgium) and Hazebrouck (in France). The British Cemetery is a little east of the village.

Historical Information:

The British Cemetery was begun in July 1917, between the Battle of Messines and the Battles of Ypres, when three Casualty Clearing Stations were moved to Godewaersvelde. The 37th and the 41st buried in it until November 1917, and the 11th until April, 1918; and from April to August, 1918, during the German Offensive in Flanders, Field Ambulance and fighting units carried on the burials. A considerable French Plot was made on the terrace at the higher end of the Cemetery in May and June, 1918, but the graves were removed after the Armistice. Five graves of soldiers of the 110th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, in Plot II, Row AA, were brought in from a point nearer the Mont des Cats. There are now over 900, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 2,644 square metres and is enclosed by a brick wall. The Cross and the War Stone are on a grass terrace on the South-Western side. In May 1953 the graves in Godewaersvelde Churchyard (an airman, a Canadian and two unknown Indian soldiers) were concentrated into this Cemetery.