VALLEY CEMETERY

Vis-en-Artois

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Valley Cemetery lies south of Vis-en-Artois, some 12 kilometres south-east of Arras on the D939 road. From Vis-en-Artois take the D9 towards Cherisy for 1.5 kilometres, then take a track towards the cemetery on your left.

The cemetery was begun on 31 August 1918 with the burial of 31 officers and men of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, who had died the previous day in the capture of Orix Trench, in the big grave in Row A, now numbered 8-11. Ten further burials were made in Row A during the early part of September and in 1924-25, Rows B and C were added when graves were brought in from the battlefields and from Thilloy German Cemetery.

Casualty Details: UK 25, Canada 37, Australia 7, Total Burials: 69

Above right: The original cross that was erected in Valley Cemetery with the names of the soldiers that were killed together the morning of August 30th, 1918 and were buried in one mass grave. (Pic: Geraldine Slattery-Ellis)

Lieutenant

Edward Slattery

D C M, M M and 2 Bars

3rd Bn. Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

30/08/1918, aged 23.

Son of Patrick and Elizabeth Barker Slattery, of 437, Magdalen St., Point St. Charles, Montreal. Native of Newfoundland. Brother of Michael Slattery, Killed 1917 and buried at Villers Station Cemetery

Row A. 10.

Picture courtesy of niece, Geraldine Slattery-Ellis

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