CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Croisilles
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Croisilles is a village about 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. Croisilles British Cemetery lies off a track, approximately 300 metres long, to the south-east of the village on the road to Ecoust-St-Mein (D9).
The 7th Division attacked Croisilles in March 1917 and took it on 2 April. It was lost on 21 March 1918 and recaptured by the 56th (London) Division on the following 28 August, after heavy fighting. Plots I and II of the cemetery, were made between April 1917 and March 1918 and the rest was formed after the Armistice, when graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields and from some smaller burial grounds. The majority of the soldiers buried in the cemetery belonged to the Guards, 7th and 21st Divisions.
Casualty Details: UK 1165, Canada 3, Australia 1, South Africa 2, Germany 18, Total Burials: 1189
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