TANK CEMETERY

Guemappe

Pas De Calais

France

General Directions: Guemappe is a village in the department of the Pas-de-Calais, 800 metres south-west of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D33). Tank Cemetery is about 700 metres north-west of Guemappe village, near the west side of the road from Monchy to Wancourt.

Guemappe was captured by Commonwealth troops on 23rd and 24 April 1917, twelve days after Wancourt. The village was lost on 23rd March 1918 and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26th August. Tank Cemetery was begun by fighting units in April 1917 and used by fighting units and field ambulances until June. It was damaged by shell-fire in 1918.

Casualty Details: UK 218, Canada 1, Total Burials: 219

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