ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY
Arleux-en-Gohelle
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Arleux-en-Gohelle is a village on the main Arras to Henin-Lietard road, the D919. The Cemetery lies on the left side of this road approximately 1 kilometre from the village of Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult.
This cemetery was originally started in April, 1917, on the new front resulting from the Battles of Arras, and it was used by the units holding that front until the following November. These original burials are in Plot VI, Row K, and Plot I, Rows A to F. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the neighbouring battlefields and from other burial grounds. During the 1939-45 War, No.2 Casualty Clearing Station was at Rouvroy, three kilometres north-east of Arleux, and the cemetery was once again used.
The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were removed to Orchard Dump Cemetery: Fresnes-les-Montauban Communal Cemetery, in which five soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by the 26th Field Ambulance in October, 1918. Fresnoy Churchyard, between Lens and Arras, where an R.F.C. officer was buried by the enemy in March, 1917. Fusiliers Cemetery, Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult, 800 metres South-West of the village beside the railway line, where eleven men of the Northumberland Fusiliers, four of the Royal Fusiliers and one Royal Marine were buried by the 63rd Division in April and May, 1917. Ouse Alley Cemetery, Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult, about 1 kilometre North-East of the village, where 38 officers and men from the United Kingdom were buried by their comrades in June, 1917-February, 1918. Quiery-la-Motte British Cemetery, 800 metres North-West of La Motte, where 27 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried by the 2nd East Lancashire's and other units in October, 1918. 2nd Canadian Division Cemetery, Willerval, midway between Vimy and Acheville, where 16 Canadian soldiers were buried by the 2nd Canadian Division in May, 1917. Willerval Canadian Cemetery (or Vancouver Road Cemetery) made by the 2nd Canadian Division in May, 1917, and containing the graves of 34 Canadian soldiers. It stood about midway between Vimy and Fresnoy. Willerval Churchyard, where four men of the 3rd Canadian Battalion were buried in April and May, 1917.
Casualty Details: UK 2696, Canada 326, South Africa 1, Total Burials: 3023
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