VAULX HILL CEMETERY

Vaulx-Vraucourt

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Vaulx-Vraucourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 6 kilometres north-east of Bapaume. Vaulx Hill Cemetery is signposted from the village. Take the RD36 direction Lagnicourt up the hill, and the Cemetery can be seen at the road side 1 kilometre from Vaulx-Vraucourt.

Vaulx-Vraucourt village was taken in the spring of 1917, lost (after severe fighting) in March 1918, and retaken in the following September. Vaulx Hill Cemetery started with just 17 graves of September 1918 (in Plot I, Rows A and B). The rest of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other cemeteries and from the battlefields in the immediate neighbourhood.

Victoria Cross: Lieutenant Cecil Harold Sewell, VC, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and 3rd (Light) Tank Bn. Tank Corps. Killed in action 29/08/1918, plot I. D. 3.

Casualty Details: UK 687, Canada 1, Australia 110, New Zealand 58, Total Burials: 856

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