Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez
Souchez is a village 3.5 kilometres north of Arras on the main road to Béthune. The Cemetery is about 1.5 kilometres south of the village on the west side of the D937 Arras-Béthune Road.
On 26 September 1915, Souchez was taken from the Germans by French troops, who handed the sector over to Commonwealth forces the following March. The village was completely destroyed. The "Cabaret Rouge" was a house on the main road about 1 kilometre south of the village, at a place called Le Corroy, near the Cemetery.
The Cemetery contains the graves of Charles A. Ormerod (Grave Ref. VI. H. 1.), of the Notts & Derby Regiment, and Arthur Albert Ormerod (Grave Ref. XXVI. A. 4.), of the East Lancashire Regiment (pictured below).
The Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when more than 7,000 graves were brought in from the battlefields of Arras and from 103 other burial grounds in the Nord and the Pas-de-Calais. The graves of both C.A. and Arthur Albert Ormerod graves were amongst these.