WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Wancourt
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Wancourt is a village about 8 kilometres south-east of Arras. It is 2 kilometres south of the main road from Arras to Cambrai. The cemetery is a short distance south-east of the village just off the D 35 road.
Wancourt was captured on 12 April 1917 after very heavy fighting and the advance was continued on the following days. The cemetery, called at first Cojeul Valley Cemetery, or River Road Cemetery, was opened about ten days later; it was used until October 1918, but was in German hands from March 1918 until 26 August, when the Canadian Corps recaptured Wancourt . At the Armistice, the cemetery contained 410 graves, but was very greatly increased in the following years when graves were brought in from small cemeteries and isolated positions on the battlefields south-east of Arras.
Casualty Details: UK 1688, Canada 246, Total Burials: 1934
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Those with awards buried/commemorated within this cemetery:
EASTON, Capt. Cyril M.C. 4th Bn East Yorkshire Regt. Died 23rd April 1917. Age 32. Son of John Huteson Easton, and Ellen Easton. Special Memorial 61.
MCKENZIE. Lt-Col Archibald Ernest Graham D.S.O & Bar. 26th Bn Canadian Inf. (New Brunswick Regt). Died 28th August 1918. Age 39. Son of Archibald McKenzie, of Campbellton, New Brunswick. Husband of Charlotte B. McKenzie, of Newcastle, New Brunswick. II. C. 9.
Information collated by Barry Cuttell |
235206 Private
John Mooney
1st/6th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
15/04/1917
Plot III. F. 10.
Picture courtesy of granddaughter Anna Bartlett
200012 Serjeant
John Thomas Haylett
1st/7th Bn. Middlesex Regiment
04/05/1917, aged 26.
Plot IV. B. 23.
Killed in war leaving only son John William George Haylett.
Gone but not forgotten & Remembered with pride
by Granddaughter Jean Fuller (nee Haylett) &
Great Granddaughter Tanya Fuller
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