TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY

Tilloy-les-Mofflaines

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Tilloy-les-Mofflaines is a village 3 kilometres south-east of Arras, on the south side of the main road to Cambrai. Tilloy British Cemetery is south-east of the village on the north-east side of the road to Wancourt, the D37.

Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines was taken by Commonwealth troops on 9 April 1917, but it was partly in German hands again from March to August 1918. The cemetery was begun in April 1917 by fighting units and burial officers, and Rows A to H in Plot I largely represent burials from the battlefield. The remaining graves in Plot I, and others in the first three rows of Plot II, represent later fighting in 1917 and the first three months of 1918, and the clearing of the village in August 1918. These 390 original burials were increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in from a wide area east of Arras and from certain smaller burial grounds.

Casualty Details: UK 1472, Canada 61, Australia 91, New Zealand 3, South Africa 15, Total Burials: 1642

Second Lieutenant

Arthur Pelham Webb

5th Bn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry

09/04/1917, aged 32.

Son of Dr. and Mrs Pelham Webb of 20 Redcliffe Square, Earl's Court. London

Plot II. G. 16.

Picture courtesy of niece, Madame Liliane Boulet

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