CWGC Cemetery: PREMONT BRITISH CEMETERY

Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on 01628 507200.

Local Information

Premont is a village some 19.5 kilometres south-east of Cambrai on the road to Guise and a little south-east of the main straight road from St Quentin to Le Cateau. Premont British Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the south side of the road to Bohain.

Historical Information

Premont village was captured by the 30th American Division on the 8th October, 1918. Premont British Cemetery was made and used by four Casualty Clearing Stations (the 20th, 50th, 55th and 61st), which came to Bohain in October, 1918, and it was closed in the following December. Some years later 165 graves were added to it: 155 from Bohain Station Military Cemetery, six from Seboncourt Communal Cemetery, and four from a site near Honnechy. This cemetery contains the graves of 536 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War, eight of which are unidentified. There are also 36 German casualties buried here, two of which are unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Charles Holden.