RUYAULCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
Ruyualcourt
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Ruyaulcourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais 11 kilometres east of Bapaume on the D7 and 19 kilometres south-west of Cambrai. The Cemetery lies 500 metres north of Ruyaulcourt village along an unmarked road but is signposted to the left by the village church as you enter Ruyaulcourt from Bapaume.
Ruyaulcourt village was attacked by the 7th D.C.L.I. on the 28th/29th March, 1917, found unoccupied the next night by the 7th Somerset Light Infantry, lost on the 23rd March, 1918, and cleared by the New Zealand Division on the 4th September, 1918. Ruyaulcourt German Cemetery was used from July, 1916, to March, 1917, and in August, 1918; and it contained 405 German graves and those of two R.A.F. officers, two soldiers from the United Kingdom and one New Zealand soldier. It was removed in 1924, and two of the British graves were brought into the Military Cemetery. Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery was begun in April, 1917, and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances (largely of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division) until March, 1918. It was re-opened in September, 1918.
Casualty Details: UK 324, Canada 2, Australia 2, New Zealand 20, Total Burials: 348
306878 Private
Thomas Dennison
1st/8th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
13/06/1917, aged 17.
Son of William and Susannah Dennison, of St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancs.
Row B. 3.
One of three brothers killed during the First World War; Charles Ernest
Picture courtesy of Stephen Singleton
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