The war grave of Sapper John Brew, 4th Siege Company, Royal Monmouthshire Regiment, Royal Engineers, who died on 17 October 1918, less than a month before the war ended, is located at Highland Cemetery, Le Cateau, France (Grave IX, B6).
After the Battle of Le Cateau in August 1914, the town remained in German hands until the middle of October 1918. Plot III (the original cemetery) was made by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division after the fighting of 17 October 1918 and the name of Highland Cemetery is suggestive at once of the comparatively high ground on which it stands and of the thirty-two graves of the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch, found in this Plot. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves of October and November 1918 from isolated positions on all sides of Le Cateau. There are now over 600, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site, of which over 60 are unidentified.
Highland Cemetery is located 1km south of Le Cateau on the D12 road to Wassigny. Le Cateau is a small town 19km south east of Cambrai.
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© Photos taken by Steve Brew on 27 August 1999