CANADIAN CEMETERY
No. 2
Neuville - St. Vaast
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Neuville-St. Vaast is a village about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The Cemetery is within the Canadian National Vimy Memorial Park, which is north of Neuville-St. Vaast. The main entrance to the Park is signposted from the Arras to Lens road (N17).
The cemetery was established by the Canadian Corps after the successful storming of Vimy Ridge on 9th April, 1917 and some of those buried in the cemetery fell in that battle or died of wounds received there, though the majority of the graves were made later for the burial of the dead recovered from surrounding battlefields and from isolated graves which were transferred into the cemetery over a period of years after the Armistice.
Shot at Dawn: Private C M Milligan, 10th Cameronians, executed for desertion 03/06/1917, plot 19. A. 14.
Casualty Details: UK 2241, Canada 695, Australia 19, New Zealand 7, South Africa 2, India 1, Total Burials: 2965
S/20494 Rifleman
James Charles Lawrence Clancy
3rd Bn. Rifle Brigade
14/04/1917, aged 20.
Son of Daniel Peter and Lucy Clancy, of 11, Lower Pellipar Rd., Woolwich, London.
His father was
the leading side drummer in the 20th London Regt. Band. His brother, called
Daniel also served in the 20th London Regt & 15th Royal Irish Rifles,
severely gassed, but survived the war.
Plot 7. A. 1.
Picture courtesy of Bernard Harris, James Clancy's nephew.
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