Abour 1.5 kilomters southeast of the center of Bourlon along a wooded path to Fontaine; past the Canadian Bourlon Woood memorial.  About 1 kilometer west of the memorial to 2LT Hartley of the Coldstream Guards. Visitors are asked to respect the private land on either side of the path.

A stone cross with two plaques attached to the front next to a large tree in a fenced enclosed area.

LT Herbert W. Windeler was the son of an American parent from Massachusetts.  He served in the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in the British Army.  He fell during the Battle of Cambrai at Bourlon Wood on November 27, 1917;  a private memorial remembers him there.  His body was never recovered. He fell not far from another American on the same day, 2LT Charles F. Hartley of the Coldstream Guards. Windeler's parents came to the area after the war and searched in vain for his body.  They never found his body and built the memorial at the location where they believed he fell with the agreement of the landowner, the Compte de Francqueville. The family visited the memorial every year until WW2; sadly, the Compte de Francqueville died in Dachau concentration camp after two years imprisonment in January 1945 and the memorial fell into disrepair unitl refrubished in 1983. See Site Cambrai Memorial where they are both Windeler and Hartley are listed on the Wall of the Missing and Site Fontaine-Notre-Dame (Bourlon Woods East) for the Hartley memorial.

Source of Information and photos: The Western Front Assocation Website, Private Memorial section for more on this memorial and other private memorials

On the upper plaque with a photo of LT Windeler:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON
Lieutenant Herbert Wheelwright Windeler
No.2 Company, «4th Battalion - Grenadier Guards
Who was killed near to this spot during the Battle of Cambrai 1917 bravely at the head of his men.
An officer of the highest order whose first thought was always for the welfare of others.
He will be affectionately remembered by all who knew him.
Across the strip of No Man's Land, Turned to a crashing, blinding hell Of flying steel and blood and sand,
He led his men and...fell.

This memorial was erected by his parents

On the Lower brass Plaque in inscribed in French:

'A LA GLOIRE DE DIEU

ET A LA MEMOIRE DU

 LIEUTENANT H. W. WINDELER

DU 4th BATALLION DES GRENADIERS GUARDS

TOMBE LE 27 NOVEMBRE 1917 BOURLON N'OUBLIE PAS

10 Juillet 1983'.

English Translation:

'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT H. W. WINDELER OF THE 4TH BATALLION OF GRENADIERS GUARDS FELL ON 27 NOVEMBER 1917 BOURLON DOES NOT FORGET 10 July 1983'.