Point-Du-Jour Military Cemetery

 cemetery, First World War 1914-1918

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Athies was captured by the 9th (Scottish) Division, which included the South African Brigade, on 9 April 1917. It remained in Allied hands until the end of the war. Point-du-Jour was a house on the road from St. Laurent-Blangy to Gavrelle and by 1917 it had become a German redoubt, captured by the 34th Division on 9 April. Two cemeteries were made on the right of the road from St. Laurent-Blangy to Point-du-Jour, No. 1 Cemetery becoming the present Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery. It was used from April to November 1917, and again in May 1918, and contained at the Armistice 82 graves (now part of Plot I). It was then enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries north, east and south of Arras.

Casualty Details: UK 704, Canada 14, New Zealand 2, South Africa 74, France 3, Total Burials: 797