BOIS-CARRÉ BRITISH CEMETERY
Thelus
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and Bois-Carre British Cemetery is 1 kilometre east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.
Thelus village, which stands on the Vimy Ridge, was captured by the Canadian Corps on the 9th April, 1917, and it remained in British hands until the end of the War. The commune contains Battle Memorials of the 1st Canadian Division and (at Les Tilleuls) the Canadian Artillery. Bois-Carre British Cemetery was begun by units of the 1st Canadian Division in April, 1917, and used until the following June, and the 61 graves thus made are in Plot I. It was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the surrounding battlefields, and a Canadian soldier, accidentally killed in 1919, was buried in Plot I, Row F.
The following were the larger burial grounds from which graves were concentrated to this cemetery:- Bumble Trench Cemetery, Vimy, (CC 186)* on the road from Vimy to Lens before the railway crossing. Here were buried, in May-August, 1917, nineteen Canadian soldiers and five from the United Kingdom. Canadian Grave (CD 27)* Neuville-St. Vaast, 1,828 metres West of Petit-Vimy, in which 48 Canadian soldiers who fell on the 9th April, 1917, were buried; almost all belonged to the 54th and 102nd Battalions. Vimy Station Cemetery, where 17 Canadian soldiers were buried in April and May, 1917.
Further Information: * On many occasions burial plots administered by the Canadian Burial Officer were given a serial number as opposed to a name, these are shown here and marked with an asterisk.
Casualty Details: UK 120, Canada 382, Total Burials: 502
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