BEAURAINS ROAD CEMETERY
Beaurains
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Beaurains is a village on the southern outskirts of Arras, and Beaurains Road Cemetery is just north of the village on the road from Arras (N17).
The cemetery was begun a few days before Beaurains was captured by Commonwealth forces on 18 March 1917. It was a month before the Battle of Arras began, and the Germans were still in nearby Tilloy-les-Mofflaines. The cemetery was used (sometimes under the name of Ronville Forward Cemetery) until the beginning of June by the 14th (Light) Division Burial Officer and by fighting units. It was used again for a short time in August and September 1918, in the Second Battle of Arras. The cemetery was then enlarged when graves were brought in from Ronville British and French Cemeteries and from the battlefields. Ronville British Cemetery stood among the houses in the Faubourg St. Sauveur, a little south of the Bapaume road. It was used from April to July 1917 (when most of the burials were made by the 20th King's Royal Rifle Corps), and by the 141st Field Ambulance in August and September 1918. It contained 179 Commonwealth burials. Ronville French Cemetery adjoined the British Cemetery. It was used by Commonwealth troops from February to April 1917 and again in August 1918. It contained 26 burials.
Casualty Details: UK 317, Canada 14, Germany 3, Total Burials: 334
39990 Private
Joshua B. Hodgson
6th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
12/03/1917
He left a widow (Averilda nee Chapman) and a daughter Esther Tweedale Hodgson. He lived in Sheffield, was born in Cleckheaton, West Yorks. son of Joshua and Esther Hodgson. Son-in-law of Mrs. M. A. Chapman, of 82, Bates St., Steel Bank, Sheffield.
Row C. 24.
Picture courtesy of Gordon Hodgson, great nephew of this soldier
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