Windy Corner, Cuinchy

Windy Corner was a road junction near the village of Cuinchy in the First World War.

It was in the section of the line held by the British army and there was a battalion headquarters there.

Burials took place there and there is now a cemetery maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

3,443 dead were buried there of which 1,246 have been identified.

[1] Major John Mackenzie (1871–1915) recipient of the Victoria Cross in the 19th century Anglo-Ashanti wars is buried here.