Pte 57400 Roderick Chisholm

He enlisted in the Lowland Division Cyclist Company as Private 1093 before he was transferred to the 20^th Battalion of The King's Liverpool Regiment as Private 57400 where he served in No.4 Company.

Roderick died of wounds on 20th April 1917, aged 21. CWGC states died of wounds received at Arras. 

He now rests at St. Sever Cemetery Extension at Rouen, France where his headstone bears the epitaph:

"TIS FOR THE VALOUR OF MY SONS THAT MEN HAVE HONOURED ME “SCOTLAND”

During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city.

Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension, where the last burial took place in April 1920.

The Cemetery and the Extension adjoin each other but have separate Registers.

During the Second World War, Rouen was again a hospital centre and the extension was used once more for the burial of Commonwealth servicemen, many of whom died as prisoners of war during the German occupation.

The cemetery extension contains 8,348 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (ten of them unidentified) and in Block "S" there are 328 from the Second World War (18 of them unidentified). There are also 8 Foreign National burials here. The adjoining St. Sever Cemetery contains 3,082 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There is also 1 French burial and 1 non war service burial here.

The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

His CWGC headstone information was provided by Mr. George Chisholm, Markstay, Ontario.