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Cemeteries of the Victoria Rifles

1,010 men of the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) commemorated in 117 cemeteries, the Menin Gate Memorial, and Vimy Memorial on the Western Front in the Great War.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) 23 February 1915

Staff Officers of the Battalion

Major John Alexander Gunn, from the 3rd V.R.C., appointed Lieutenant-Colonel and Commanding Officer, October 22nd, 1914. Colonel Gunn has been actively engaged in the Canadian Militia since 1897. Major Claude Hardings Hill seconded from the Royal Canadian Regiment, and appointed second in command.

Captain Ronald O’Kedan Alexander, seconded from the Royal Canadian Regiment serving in Bermuda, and appointed Adjutant. The Assistant Adjutant is Lieut. Charles Frederick. Richie, from the 3rd V.R.C. The Sergeant-Major is Sergeant-Major Ernest George N Lidstone, also from the 3rd V.R.C. The Rev. A. P. Shatford, Rector of St. James the Apostle Church, Montreal, is Chaplain, with rank of Captain.

CQMS Henry James Allen, Bugler John William Abrams

A Company
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)

Major Eric Ogilvy McMurty, Major Clayton B Parr, Major John Alexander Ross, Captain Charles Gordon, Captain Gerald Fennell Furlong, Captain Charles King-Mason, Captain Arthur Hawley A Morphy, Captain John Stephens Jenkins, Captain Ronald Douglas Sutherland, Captain frank Thompson Bown, and Captain Randol Killaly Robertson.

Demographics

Besides native-born Canadians, British subjects from the Motherland and all the Colonies, naturalized subjects of many countries to be found in the ranks of the Battalion. The countries from which the men of the Battalion drawn shown in the following list, in order of number.

England (460)
Canada (378)
Scotland (169)
Ireland (61)
American (26)
Wales (16)
Newfoundland (6)
Trinidad (4)
Jamaica (4)
India (4)
Egypt (2)
British Guiana (2)
Denmark (2)
S. Africa (1)
Barbados (1)
Turkey (1)
New Zealand (2)
Australia (2)
Bahamas (1)
Grenada (1)
Mexico (1)
Greece (1)
Channel Islands (4)

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
C Company

Shortly after the formation of the Battalion, a Boxing Club organized, and ten Members of the Club entered a Garrison Tournament kindly arranged by the President and Directors of the M.A.A.A., at the first meeting of which, on January 30th, cols, all the Honours were carried off by Members of the 24th Battalion.

Band

The Department of Militia and Defense gave permission for the organization of a Band, the men to act as stretcher bearers on active service, in accordance with our War Establishments. Friends of the Commanding Officer and of the Regiment have kindly provided the instruments for a Band of 24 Pieces, in addition to the Bugle Band of 16 Pieces.

Barracks

The old Peel Street High School was taken over by the Government and transformed into a Barracks. One of the most memorable – and pleasant events in the life of the Battalion in Montreal was its inspection by its Honorary Colonel, Field Marshall His Royal Highness The Duke; of Connaught on December 17th.

Top row (l-r): Sergt D Colville, Sgt-Inst E White, Sergt F Wilmot, Sergt A J Clarke, Sergt J W Worthington, Sergt G G McDonald, Sergt H Dear Sergt L A Sewell

2nd row (l-r): Sgt R Lindsawy, Sgt L A Cook, Sgt N Lee, L-Sgt A M Carleton, Sgt J Rose, LSgt A M Davar, Sgt G J Bush, LSgt L Redpath

3rd row (l-r): CSM S Boa, Sgt H R Taylor, Sgt A D Perkins, QMS Inst P E Brunelle, Sgt-Cook P W Reston, CQMS A Denne, Sgt H J Ferguson, Pioneer Sergt. J. Stewart, Sergt. R. Lamb, Sergt. G. G. R. Taylor.

4th row (l-r): Sgt D A Ewan, Sergt-Major A. Crichton, . Sergt. P. T Walker, Sergt. G. Haddock, Sergt. L. Gainsford, Batt. Quarter-Master, Sgt J A Donovan, Master-Tailor S Bell, Sgt A W Fales, Sgt W R Charrel, Armourer-Sergt. J. Mitchell, Coy. Quarter-Master Sergt. H. J. Allen,

5th row (l-r) Sergt. T. Hughes. Coy. Sergt. -Major E. Denman, Coy., QMS F. Morgan, Orderly Room Sergt. H. L. Butteris, Coy. Quarter-Master Sergt. R. H. Lyon, Coy. Sergt. -Major W. S. McKay, Batt., Sgt Major E G Lidstone, Sergt. H. G. Hunter, Sergt. B. W. Newsam, Band Sergt. J. Barron, Transport Sergt. A. Durman, Sergt. W. L. Brown, Sergi: J. H. Bales.

Motto

PRO ARIS ET FOCIS (For the altars and for the hearths)

1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY holds 18 men from September-December 1915.

September 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

The cemetery, named from a dairy farm, begun in November 1914 and used until October 1918 by units holding this sector of the front.

The different plots were, to a great extent, treated as regimental burial grounds; the majority of the graves in Plots II, III and X, for instance, those of the 26th, 25th and 24th Canadian Infantry Battalions, respectively, and all but one of the graves in Plot VIII those of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.

X. D. 11. CLIFT EDWIN ALFRED 30 30/09/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65184’ NEPHEW OF MR. B. A. CLIFT, OF “ABBEY MEAD,” 31, WESTWOOD RD., SOUTHAMPTON.

October 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. D. 12. WARD WALTER ARTHUR 02/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘66017’ SON OF GEORGE H. AND SARAH WARD, OF 2422A, ST. URBAIN ST., MONTREAL. NATIVE OF NESTON, ENGLAND.
X. D. 10. ROBERTS 23 08/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65838’ SON OF T. A. AND MARY ROBERTS, OF ABBEY PARK, KEYNSHAM, SOMERSET, ENGLAND. NATIVE OF LONDON, ENGLAND.
X. D. 9. BROWN WILLIAM 32 12/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65124’ SON OF ANN BROWN, OF 22, MOSSFIELD RD., FARNWORTH, LANCS. NATIVE OF WESTHOUGHTON, LANCS.
X. D. 7. JONES 12/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65503’
X. D. 8. SMITH 13/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66215’
X. D. 6. JAMES 18/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65487’
X. D. 5. GOUGER SINGH 32 19/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn ‘65400’ SON OF BHOLA SINGH, SANTA, OF JANBAL, PHILLOUR TAHSIL, JULLUNDUR DISTRICT; HUSBAND OF MUSAMMAT BISHN KAUR, OF JANBAL, INDIA.
X. D. 4. WHITFORD GEORGE 20 20/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66045’ SON OF ROBERT HENRY AND ELIZA J. WHITFORD, OF SUTTON, QUEBEC. BORN AT LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.
X. D. 3. BAKER 22 30/10/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65040’ SON OF PERCY AND MARGARET S. BAKER, OF MATAPEDIA, P.Q., CANADA. NATIVE OF U.S.A.

Private Sunta Gougersing (Gunga Singh) CEFRG.
Sunta’s body should have been created as per Sikh tradition.
His remains lie beneath this headstone.

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

Bailleul occupied on 14 October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre, with the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations quartered in it for considerable periods.

It was a Corps headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled, and after the Battle of Bailleul (13-15 April 1918), it fell into German hands and not retaken until 30 August 1918.

I. B. 169. PATERSON 27 11/10/1915 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65765’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM PATERSON, OF AYR, SCOTLAND.

The earliest Commonwealth burials at Bailleul made at the east end of the communal cemetery and in April 1915, when the space available had been filled, the extension opened on the east side of the cemetery.

November 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. D. 2. HARDS BRIAN 18 11/11/1915 Private Canadian Infantry “C” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘66179’ ONLY SON OF BERTRAM EDWARD AND ELEANOR CLARA HARDS, OF APT. 1, 343, CLARKE AVENUE, WESTMOUNT, P.Q., CANADA. NATIVE OF MONTREAL.
X. D. 1. McDONALD WILLIAM DOUGLAS 28 15/11/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65593’ NATIVE OF PICTOU LANDING, NOVA SCOTIA.
X. C. 15. HICKEY JOSEPH T. 15/11/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66271’(SERVED AS SMYTH). FATHER OF MISS MARY E. HICKEY, OF 119, LESLIE ST., TORONTO.

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

I. F. 197. DIVER CHARLES JEFFREY 22 08/11/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65266’ SON OF JAMES AND MATILDA WHYTE DIVER, OF PORT-NA-BLA, BALLYMORE, CO. DONEGAL, IRELAND. JOINED UP ON OUTBREAK OF WAR, FROM THE BANK OF MONTREAL, MONTREAL.
I. F. 204. THOMSON 10/11/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65980’
I. C. 43. WILLIS-HARRIS RALPH CLAUDIAN 23 09/11/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65418’ SON OF ADA SARAH POPPLEWELL (FORMERLY WILLIS-HARRIS), OF EASEBOURNE, MIDHURST, SUSSEX, ENGLAND, AND THE LATE WILLIAM WILLIS-HARRIS.

December 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. C. 14. Ste. MARIE ADRIEN 20 01/12/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65867’ SON OF MOISE AND DELIA STE. MARIE (NEE CARDINAL), OF 192, MARQUETTE ST., MONTREAL.
X. C. 13. COULTHARD LEWIS WILLIAM 23 13/12/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65216’ SON OF WILLIAM AUGUSTUS AND MARY E. COULTHARD (NEE NEWTON) OF 290A, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ST., MONTREAL. BORN AT LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.
X. C. 12. YOLLAND HENRY LESLIE 19 17/12/1915 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66090’ SON OF MR. W. E. AND MRS. A. M. YOLLAND, OF STE. ANNE DE BELLEVUE, P.Q., CANADA. NATIVE OF STROUD, GLOS., ENGLAND.
X. C. 16. O’KEEFE O’NEY 18/12/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65746’
X. C. 11. DRISCOLL 17 29/12/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65285’ SON OF ELLEN SUSANNAH DRISCOLL, OF 2594, ESPLANADE AVENUE, MONTREAL.

Private Oney O'Keefe — Private Oney O’Keefe

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

I. D. 137. GAGNON 48 17/12/1915 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘428589’

1916

Men continued to be buried at LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY in early 1916, with occasional burials at BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD and ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY.

January 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. D. 13. ECCLESTONE ARTHUR ASHTON 28 11/01/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65305’ SON OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH KATE ECCLESTONE, OF ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT.
X. C. 10. STEWART ERNEST 21 06/01/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65938’ SON OF MRS. E. STEWART, OF 34A, ST. ALEXANDER ST., MONTREAL, AND THE LATE ISAAC STEWART.
X. C. 7. RICHARDS 07/01/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65825’
X. C. 9. O’BRIEN BERNARD 22 09/01/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65740’ HUSBAND OF JULIA O’BRIEN, OF 1627, ST. JAMES ST., MONTREAL.
X. C. 8. BUCHANAN REGINALD HEBER BANCROFT 21 18/01/1916 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF REGINALD HEBER BUCHANAN, OF 40, BOULEVARD, WESTMOUNT, MONTREAL.
X. C. 6. McKENNA 19/01/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65698’
X. C. 5. COLE 21/01/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn ‘66138’
X. C. 4. SMART HENRY WILLIAM 26 30/01/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65897’ SON OF MARCELINE MAUD SMART (NEE GORBEILL) AND THE LATE GEORGE SMART. BORN AT MONTREAL.

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

II. C. 96. COOK 31/01/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65206’ BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

February 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. B. 1. McLEOD ARCHIBALD 27 10/02/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65706’ SON OF KENNETH AND CATHERINE MCLEOD, OF 812, SHUTER ST., MONTREAL.
X. C. 1. MacGREGOR 27 10/02/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65691’ SON OF JOHN AND ANNIE M. GRANT MACGREGOR, OF DUNSKEY, PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. BORN AT BALLIKINRAIN BALFRON, STIRLINGSHIRE.
X. C. 3. COLLYER FRANK ARTHUR 24 10/02/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412097’ SON OF RICHARD AND ANN COLLYER, OF 89, HORSELL MOOR, WOKING.
X. C. 2. DOLPHIN JAMES 22 13/02/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry “C” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘65270’ SON OF JAMES DOLPHIN AND JANE MARY BRAMMALL (HIS WIFE), OF MAGOG, QUEBEC.
X. B. 2. ANDREWS 24/02/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66228’

March 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. B. 3. GRENIER 05/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416278’
X. B. 4. GAGNON 17/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416431’
X. B. 6. WIGHTMAN WILLIAM 36 17/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘448244’ SON OF WILLIAM AND REBECCA WIGHTMAN, OF 22, BRIARDALE RD., PENNY LANE, MOSSLEY HILL, LIVERPOOL.
X. B. 8. JUTEAU 27/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416528’
X. B. 7. TORRANCE DONALD FRASER 25 27/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65985’ SON OF FORBES AND ALICE STEWART TORRANCE, OF 616, ST. JOSEPH ST., LACHINE, P.Q., CANADA.

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

The area around Etaples the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. Remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields.

VI. D. 4A. MOTT EDGAR ANDREW 23 15/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65646’ SON OF CHARLES WILLIAM AND FANNIE STROUFELD MOTT, OF 633, BATHURST ST., TORONTO. BORN AT WINSHAM, SOMERSET.

Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) gardeners tending the graves of the war dead at Etaples. The wooden crosses would later be replaced by white headstones.

In 1917, 100,000 troops camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

II. C. 202. CANNON 37 16/03/1916 Private Canadian Infantry “D” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘65153’ HUSBAND OF MARTHA ALICE CANNON, OF 3, GILLESPIE ST., SHERBROOKE, P.Q., CANADA.

April 1916

Fighting intensifies in April 1916, with many bodies lost, and therefore commemorated on the MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. B. 9. HARDMAN C. LAWRENCE 20 02/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65413’ SON OF B. ALICE HARDMAN, OF 1, LORNE AVENUE, MONTREAL, AND THE LATE ALEXANDER HARDMAN.

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

II. D. 223. HUTCHINGS 05/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66232’

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3

The Voormizeele Enclosures (at one time there a total of four, but now reduced to three) originally regimental groups of graves, begun very early in the war and gradually increased until the village and the cemeteries captured by the Germans after very heavy fighting on 29 April 1918.

X. A. 26. ADAMS GUY KINSMAN 22 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415792’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. EDGAR ADAMS, OF DEEP BROOK, NOVA SCOTIA.
XIII. A. 23. FALES ARCHIBALD WILLIAM 29 15/04/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65319’ SON OF JOHN AND JANET FALES, OF 31, HIGH ST., SHERBROOKE, P.Q. CANADA.
XIII. A. 22. ROSS ROBERT MacPHERSON 34 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65854’ SON OF DAVID AND JEMIMA ROSS, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.
XIII. A. 24. JONES TREVOR PRYS 32 15/04/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65512’ BROTHER OF ETHEL M. JONES, OF 17, ALBERT RD., REGENT’S PARK, LONDON, ENGLAND.

Voormezeele Enclosure No.3, the largest of these burial grounds, begun by the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in February 1915. Their graves in Plot III, the other Plots from I to IX are the work of other units, or pairs of units, and include a few graves of October 1918.

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

The New Military Cemetery begun in February 1915 (in succession to the Old Military Cemetery near the Church), and was used until May 1917 by neighbouring fighting units and field ambulances. The 31st (Alberta) Canadian Infantry Battalion erected a memorial in it to 22 of their numbers who fell in April 1916.

I. 36. ELFORD STEPHEN 23 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141418’ SON OF JAMES AND ROSE ELFORD. OF SILVER ST., SWAY, LYMINGTON.
J. 29. HILL CYRIL CHARLES 19 30/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65448’ SON OF THOMAS AND HANNAH MARIA HILL, OF 159, VILLE MARIE AVENUE, MAISONNEUVE, MONTREAL. HIS BROTHER, HORACE DIED ON THE SAME DAY AND IS BURIED NEXT TO HIM.
J. 28. HILL HORACE E. K. 22 30/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65449’ SON OF THOMAS AND HANNAH MARIA HILL, OF 159, VILLE MARIE AVENUE, MAISONNEUVE, MONTREAL. HIS BROTHER, CYRIL CHARLES DIED ON THE SAME DAY AND IS BURIED NEXT TO HIM.
J. 30. RAE ALFRED HAMILTON 24 30/04/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65806’ SON OF JOHN AND ANNIE RAE, OF ROBERTSON”S BUILDINGS, DUNKELD RD., PERTH, SCOTLAND.
J. 12. MACNAUGHTON 26/04/1916 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
I. 37. JONES JOHN 28 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66159’ HUSBAND OF EDITH JONES, OF 5, BLACKROCK, HEYROD, STALYBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

A few further burials took place in March and April 1918. The Extension used from May 1917 to January 1918.

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2

Enclosure No.1, Plot I of the current cemetery, begun by the 28th Division in March 1915 and carried on by the 17th, 3rd and other Divisions (and later by the Artillery) until April 1918. A few graves in Row N added by the Germans, and a few more by Commonwealth forces in September and October 1918. One grave brought into Row F after the Armistice from a position in the village.

II. A. 2. FRITZJARLDS 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454763’ VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2 (SERVED AS STORRING),.
I. C. 23. SQUIRES 21 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry “A” Coy, 24th Bn. ‘66160’ VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2 SON OF FRANCIS AND ELIZA SQUIRES; HUSBAND OF MRS. R. L. CLERC (FORMERLY SQUIRES), OF “ASHCROFT,” PENSBY RD., PENSBY, HESWALL, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND.
I. D. 22. HOGG JAMES 23 17/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65459’ VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2 SON OF JAMES AND ELIZABETH HOGG, OF 31, COCHRAN ST., PAISLEY, SCOTLAND.
I. C. 24. WEBB 17/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66025’ VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2
I. D. 2. BRANNEY 29/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65108’ VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2
Sp. Mem. 3. ROUSE 12/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65856’ VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2

Enclosure No.2, now Plot II, begun in March 1915 and until April 1917. After the Armistice, 42 graves from Enclosure No.4 brought into Rows B, C and D.

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

During the war, the village of Lijssenthoek situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the Front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place to establish casualty clearing stations. The cemetery was first used by the French 15th Hopital D’Evacuation and in June 1915, it began to be used by casualty clearing stations of the Commonwealth forces.

VI. B. 10A. SMITH JOHN EDWARD 23 12/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171002’ BROTHER OF MAY SMITH, OF 36, WEAR ST., HENDON, SUNDERLAND, ENGLAND. BORN AT SUNDERLAND.
VI. C. 5. LONGMOORE THOMAS DAVID 41 15/04/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65580’ SON OF MARY J. LONGMOORE, OF 102, BIRCH AVENUE, ST. LAMBERT, CHAMBLY CO., MONTREAL, AND THE LATE JAMES LONGMOORE.
VI. C. 5A. GILLARD 16/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65370’
VI. C. 20. SIMKINS HENRY ERNEST 21 21/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65894’ SON OF ERNEST AND KATE SIMKINS, OF 115, MANOR RD., PARK LANE, TOTTENHAM, LONDON, ENGLAND.
VI. B. 28. GRAY 29/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171097’

From April to August 1918, the casualty clearing stations fell back before the German advance and field ambulances (including a French ambulance) took their places.

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

V. A. 22. HAYES FRANCIS JOSEPH 23 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65435’ ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF MARTIN AND ELIZABETH HAYES (NEE HICKS), OF MONTREAL. HIS BROTHER, JAMES, ALSO DIED IN SERVICE.

ELZENWALLE BRASSERIE CEMETERY

This cemetery named from a brewery which stood opposite and is in fact a collection of small regimental burial grounds, of which Plot III in particular was made by the 22nd Bn Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt).

IV. A. 2. JOHNSON ERNEST EDWARD 28 16/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65497’ ELZENWALLE BRASSERIE CEMETERY SON OF HERBERT M. AND LUCY JOHNSON, OF STRATFORD, ONTARIO.

The eight plots numbered neither in order of date nor in order of position, and the short rows vary from one grave to fourteen, but they record the names of the units which held the trenches on this front from February 1915 to June 1917, and of some of those which, from June to November 1917, held the forward line won in the Battle of Messines.

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

Boulogne, one of the three base ports most extensively used by the Commonwealth armies on the Western Front throughout the war. Headstones recumbent as at Wimereux due to the unstable substrate.

VIII. A. 93. WILCOX THOMAS ARTHUR 27 17/04/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66050’ BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY SON OF THE LATE HENRY AND EMILY WILCOX, OF GREENWICH, ENGLAND.

Closed and cleared on the 27 August 1914 when the Allies forced to fall back ahead of the German advance, but opened again in October and from that month to the end of the war, Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas.

The Hill Brothers

Buglers Cyril and Horace Hill both died of wounds at No. 6 CFA on 30 April 1916.

A third brother Pvt Herbert (Harold) Hill 65450 survived the war, though he lost his leg in the Battle of Amiens, August 1918. Herbert had served as a Batman for a period with the 10th Brigade before returning to the 24th.

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

The Menin Gate one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.

Casualties

CROSBY KEITH BRUCE 17 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415769’ SON OF HOWARD A. CROSBY, OF HECTANOOGA, NOVA SCOTIA, AND THE LATE LILLIAN S. CROSBY.
GILMOUR 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65369’
RENAUD XAVIER 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455109’
WILLIAMSON JOHN 29 11/04/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66063’ ADOPTED SON OF THE LATE CAPT. WILLIAM AND NELLIE WILLIAMSON.
THAIN 11/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65974’
BREWER 15/04/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65113’

EASSON 35 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65301’ SON OF THE LATE MRS. JOHN EASSON, OF KIRKCALDY, SCOTLAND; HUSBAND OF JANE CLARK EASSON, OF BANK VIEW, CAIRNEYHILL, DUNFERMLINE, SCOTLAND.
MARSH JAMES WILLIAM 27 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65607’ SON OF GEORGE AND ALICE ANN MARSH, OF 16, YORK ST., BRIDGEMAN ST., BOLTON; HUSBAND OF ADA MURRAY (FORMERLY MARSH), OF 24, CRADDOCK ST., BOLTON, ENGLAND.
MOLLOY JOHN HERBERT 26 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65630’ SON OF B. AND ELIZABETH MOLLOY, OF EGONVILLE, ONTARIO.
MORRIS 24 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65641’ SON OF FRANCIS L. AND FRANCES M. NEWELL MORRIS, OF 20605, ST. HUBERT ST., MONTREAL. EX. Q.M.S. HIGHLAND CADET BN. MONTREAL. ENLISTED IN THE FALL OF 1914.
PARKER 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171184’
SULLIVAN JAMES RAPHAEL 28 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66274’ SON OF BRIDGET SULLIVAN, OF 201, DUNDAFF ST., CARBONDALE, PA., U.S.A., AND THE LATE JAMES SULLIVAN.
ROMEA 15/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141761’
HARDIE 16/04/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘458054’
CARSON 17/04/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142310’

May 1916

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL May 1916

The site of the Menin Gate chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates casualties from the forces of Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and United Kingdom who died in the Salient. In the case of United Kingdom casualties, only those prior 16 August 1917 (with some exceptions).

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
Menin_Gate_at_midnight_(Will_Longstaff)

United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. New Zealand casualties that died prior to 16 August 1917 are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery.

Casualties

LEE 22/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171150’
REDMOND WALTER HENRY 26 22/05/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65813’ SON OF JOHN AND SARAH REDMOND, OF 10, PARKGATE AVENUE, BELFAST, IRELAND. A CLERK IN MOLSON’S BANK, MONTREAL.
ADAMS 20 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65003’
BICKERDIKE ROBERT SHEARLEY 23 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy., 24th Bn. ‘65078’ SON OF NELSON BICKERDIKE AND THE LATE MARGARET EWING BICKERDIKE (NEE SKINNER)
COOPER WILLIAM 28 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412693’ SON OF MRS. LIZZIE COOPER, OF 6, SHERBROOK TERRACE, CARRINGTON, NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND.
DINGWALL McLAREN 22 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454664’ SON OF FLORA DINGWALL, OF LANCASTER, ONTARIO, AND THE LATE JOHN C. DINGWALL.
HORN 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415174’
McCAW 21 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘457005’ SON OF JAMES AND ELIZABETH MCCAW, OF 218, LECLAIRE AVENUE, MONTREAL.
SWEENEY HERBERT JOSEPH 19 23/05/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412621’ SON OF MRS. JOHN SWEENEY, OF 264, MURRAY ST., PETERBORO’, ONTARIO, AND THE LATE PTE. JOHN JOSEPH SWEENEY.

June 1916

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)

The commune of Zillebeke contains many Commonwealth cemeteries as the front line trenches ran through it during the greater part of the war. Railway Dugouts Cemetery 2 Kms west of Zillebeke village, where the railway runs on an embankment overlooking a small farmstead, which was known to the troops as Transport Farm.

WILLIAM CARSON 10/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65020’ BROTHER OF MRS. JANE ADRAIN, OF 24675, HUTCHISON ST., MONTREAL.
MEDAS 24 10/06/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454227’ SON OF CHARLES AND MARTHA BROWN, OF SUMMERSTOWN, ONTARIO.

The site of the cemetery screened by slightly rising ground to the east, and burials began there in April 1915. They continued until the Armistice, especially in 1916 and 1917, when Advanced Dressing Stations were placed in the dugouts and the farm. They were made in small groups, without any definite arrangement and in the summer of 1917 a considerable number were obliterated by shell fire before they could be marked. The names “Railway Dugouts” and “Transport Farm” were both used for the cemetery.

ZILLEBEKE CHURCHYARD

The commune of Zillebeke contains many Commonwealth cemeteries as the front line trenches ran through it during the greater part of the war. Zillebeke Churchyard contains 32 Commonwealth burials and commemorations.

B. 3. CROFT WILLIAM JOHN 19 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘445160’ SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH CROFT, OF CHATHAM, NEW BRUNSWICK.
D. 4. SIME JOHN CARRON 23 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65891’ SON OF JAMES AND CATHERINE B. SIME, OF 5, TEMPLE CRESCENT, CRAIL, FIFE, SCOTLAND.

Fourteen (mainly officers) belonged to the Foot Guards or the Household Cavalry who died in 1914. Six of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate two casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.

ZANTVOORDE BRITISH CEMETERY

On 30 October 1914, the village of Zantvoorde (now Zandvoorde) held by the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, numbering between 300 and 400 men. Bombarded for over an hour with heavy guns and then taken by the 39th German Division and three attached battalions. The whole front of the 3rd Cavalry Division driven back to the Klein-Zillebeke ridge. The village could not be retaken and remained in German hands until 28 September 1918. The Household Cavalry Memorial, unveiled by Lord Haig in May 1924, stands on the South side of the village at the place where part of the Brigade was annihilated in 1914.

II. J. 23. FARRELL 08/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65321’

Zantvoorde British Cemetery made after the Armistice when remains brought in from the battlefields and nearby German cemeteries. Many were those of soldiers who died in the desperate fighting round Zantvoorde, Zillebeke and Gheluvelt in the latter part of October 1914.

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY

New Irish Farm Cemetery first used from August to November 1917 and named after a nearby farm, known to the troops as ‘Irish Farm’ (originally there was an Irish Farm Cemetery immediately South of the Farm. The cemetery about 300 metres North of the Farm at a crossing once known as Hammond’s Corner).

XXX. C. 18. KENNEDY JAMES GORDON 23 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65520’ SON OF ALICE KENNEDY, OF 5, SALISBURY RD., EDINBURGH, AND THE LATE CHARLES KENNEDY, M.D.
XXX. C. 17. McKENZIE 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415449’

Used again in April and May 1918 and at the Armistice it contained just 73 burials – the three irregular rows of Plot I – but was then greatly enlarged when more than 4,500 graves were brought in from the battlefields north-east of Ypres (now Ieper) and from smaller cemeteries.

SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY

Sanctuary Wood one of the larger woods in the commune of Zillebeke. Named in November 1914, when it was used to screen troops behind the front line. It was the scene of fighting in September 1915 and was the centre of the Battle of Mount Sorrel (2-13 June 1916) involving the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
Scene in Sanctuary Wood [Belgium], 22 June 1616. MIKAN No. 3520914

V. C. 1. LEMESURIER GEORGE STUART 11/06/1916 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.

There were three Commonwealth cemeteries at Sanctuary Wood before June 1916, all made in May-August 1915. The first two were on the western end of the wood, the third in a clearing further east. All were practically obliterated in the Battle of Mount Sorrel, but traces of the second were found and it became the nucleus of the present Sanctuary Wood Cemetery.

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

K. 5. McBRIDE 24 03/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65669’ SON OF EDWARD AND ESTHER MARY MCBRIDE, OF 113, 4TH AVENUE EAST, CALGARY, ALBERTA. NATIVE OF LONDON, ONTARIO.

PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)

The cemetery begun by French troops in November 1914 (the French graves were removed after the Armistice) and adopted by the 2nd Scottish Rifles in June 1917. It was called Perth (as the predecessors of the 2nd Scottish Rifles were raised in Perth), China Wall (from the communication trench known as the Great Wall of China), or Halfway House Cemetery.

Sp. Mem. C. 3. RICHARDSON 21 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65829’ SON OF W. S. AND RHODA RICHARDSON, OF 4220, ST. CATHERINE, WESTMOUNT, MONTREAL.

The cemetery used for front line burials until October 1917 when it occupied about half of the present Plot I and contained 130 graves.

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

VII. B. 2A. WRIGHT 04/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66123’
VII. C. 14A. PATENAUDE 08/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘417057’
VII. C. 20A. SANSOUCIE 11/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454877’
VIII. B. 1A. SMITH 19 19/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65902’ SON OF WILLIAM SMITH AND ANNIE LAMONT MCDONALD SMITH, OF 42, HALL AVENUE, POINT ST. CHARLES, MONTREAL.
VIII. B. 5A. GRUNDY GORDON TRAFFORD 20 20/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65399’ SON OF JOHN AND MATILDA GRUNDY, OF HEMMINGFORD, QUEBEC.

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

BAXTER 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171032’
BORTHWICK JAMES MORRIS 27 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘65095’ SON OF ANDREW AND HELEN BORTHWICK, OF 43, HIGH ST., DUNBAR, SCOTLAND.
CAVE LEWIS 27 16/06/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65168’ SON OF GEORGE CAVE; HUSBAND OF ALICE CAVE, OF 5, SPRING LANE, LEES, OLDHAM, ENGLAND.
CLUNIE 18/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65185’
COLLINS 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘457004’
COOK 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65208’
COOK ROBERT McKENZIE 35 18/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171060’ SON OF JAMES COOK, OF TRON PLACE, LARGS, AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
COUND 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66171’
DAVIS ALFRED 19 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141326’ SON OF JOSEPH DAVIS, OF WHITEFOX, SASKATCHEWAN, AND THE LATE MARTHA SHELDON DAVIS.

FAREWELL THOMAS WILLIAM 19 11/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415418’ SON OF JOSEPH AND SUSANNA FAREWELL, OF 827, ROBIE ST., HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.
FERGUSON LAWRENCE 24 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65325’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. DONALD FERGUSON, LATE OF TORONTO.
FRASER JOHN ALLAN 21 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415168’ SON OF EMILY FRASER, OF NEW WATERFORD, CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA, AND THE LATE ALEX. FRASER.
GALE JOE HERBERT 31 11/06/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412370’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH GALE, OF 94, MANOR RD., WEST HILL, HASTINGS, ENGLAND; HUSBAND OF ADA MARY ANNE GALE, OF ALBERT ST., COBOURG, ONTARIO.
GORE 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65376’ SON OF JAMES GORE, OF HIGHER ST., DARTMOUTH, ENGLAND.
HARTLEY 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141922’
HENDRY 11/06/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65439’
HOBDAY WALTER JAMES 26 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65453’ SON OF BENJAMIN THOMAS AND ELIZABETH HOBDAY, OF BUNCES FARM, ASHBURNHAM, BATTLE, SUSSEX, ENGLAND. HIS BROTHER, LT. S. G. HOBDAY, ALSO FELL.
HOLMES GEORGE BURTON 24 09/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412119’ ADOPTED SON OF MR. AND MRS. F. L. HOLMES, OF “WHITEHALL TAVERN,” 30, DEVON RD., WHITEHALL, BRISTOL, ENGLAND.
HURLEY 18 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66127’ SON OF THE LATE JOHN AND ALICE FARMER HURLEY, OF VANSLEEK HILL, ONTARIO.
MACK 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455529’
McGONNIGAL 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65693’
MILLER JAMES MATHIAS 20 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415334’ SON OF WILLIAM G. AND ELIZABETH MILLER, OF 129, NORTH ST., HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.

And More

PAINE CHARLES 30 18/06/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65759’ SON OF CHARLES HENRY AND ELIZABETH PAINE, OF CREEPER COTTAGES, BISHAM GREEN, MARLOW, BUCKS., ENGLAND.
PATTERSON LEONARD 19 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65767’ SON OF A. AND ELIZABETH PATTERSON, OF 8, OVERDALE AVENUE, MONTREAL.
PELLETIER EMILE DEMETRIUS 29 18/06/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416014’ SON OF FRANCOIS PELLETIER, OF 106, DES PRAIRIES, ST. ROCH DE QUEBEC, P.Q.; HUSBAND OF THE LATE EMMA LEVESQUE.
TAYLOR 25 11/06/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65968’ SON OF JAMES R. AND ANNIE TAYLOR, OF 96, CROFTDOWN RD., KENTISH TOWN, LONDON, ENGLAND.
TESSIER 10/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416545’

REID FRANK LIONEL 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66276’ (SERVED AS GORMAN).
RINGLAND 18/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66192’
ROWE 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141978’
ROWLEY EDGAR HUGH 26 16/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66141’ (SERVED AS HUGHES), SON OF MR. AND MRS. HUGH
ROWLEY, OF 4099, NOTRE DAME ST. EAST, MONTREAL; HUSBAND OF BEATRICE M. HAWKES (FORMERLY ROWLEY), OF 154, BOURGEOIS ST., PT. ST. CHARLES, MONTREAL.
SHORROCK 33 19/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘457428’ SON OF THOMAS AND AGNES SHORROCK; HUSBAND OF MARY ANNIE GEARY SHORROCK, OF 641, JOQUES ST., VILLE EMARDE, MONTREAL.
SIMS 18/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171201’
SWEENEY HAROLD LATHAM 24 07/06/1916 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘65953’ SON OF MRS. M. E. SWEENEY, OF 2039, BLEURY ST., MONTREAL.

July 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

X. B. 12. FRAMPTON 24/07/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66219’
X. B. 10. PEDDER JOHN SUTCLIFFE 19 24/07/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65777’ SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH PEDDER, OF 377, BEAULIEU ST., VILLE EMARD, MONTREAL. BORN AT MORECAMBE, ENGLAND.
X. B. 14. RUTTER WILLIAM MORLEY 21 25/07/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412153’ SON OF WILLIAM AND GERTRUDE RUTTER, OF BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO.
X. B. 11. CHAPPELL FRANK F. 19 25/07/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469489’ SON OF LUCIUS B. AND MARY B. CHAPPELL, AIRDRIE, ALBERTA. NATIVE OF TIDNISH BRIDGE, NEW BRUNSWICK.
X. B. 15. BAXTER RICHARD JAMES 28 28/07/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65055’ SON OF RICHARD BAXTER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND; HUSBAND OF JANE BAXTER (NEE GOODFELLOW).
X. A. 1. NEWMAN 25 30/07/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘413071’ SON OF MRS. MARY ANN NEWMAN, OF 4, CHAPEL ST., GOSPORT, ENGLAND.
X. B. 13. SULLIVAN HERBERT PERCY 28 24/07/1916 Company Sergeant Major Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66121’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES A. SULLIVAN, OF MONTREAL.

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

The COMMUNAL CEMETERY at Noeux-les-Mines used by the Commonwealth forces (in succession to the French) from June 1915 to August 1917. The earlier burials were carried out by units and field ambulances but in April 1917, the 7th Casualty Clearing Station began to use the cemetery. It contains 980 Commonwealth burials of the war.

Casualties

II. D. 13. DONALD 03/07/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
II. F. 22. WRIGHT ALFRED 43 25/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919869’ SON OF GEORGE WRIGHT, OF STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND.
II. F. 35. HUTCHINGS EDWARD 51 29/07/1917 Private Canadian Pioneers 124th Bn. ‘772591’ SON OF WILLIAM AND SARAH HUTCHINGS, OF 34, ST. JOHN’S PARK, UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON; HUSBAND OF EMILY B. HUTCHINGS (NEE TORR), OF NOTTINGHAM.
II. F. 36. BOYCE 30/07/1917 Private Canadian Pioneers 124th Bn. ‘670032’
II. G. 7. CAMPBELL HARRY DAVIES 37 Mentioned in Despatches 30/07/1917 Captain Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. HON. CAPT.AND QMR. SON OF THE LATE ALEXANDER AND JANET CAMPBELL, OF ENGLAND; HUSBAND OF SARAH JANE CAMPBELL, OF PERTH, ONTARIO.

The EXTENSION begun in August 1917 and used until December 1918, chiefly by the 6th and 7th Casualty Clearing Stations. It contains 304 Commonwealth burials of the war and 12 German war graves.

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY

The men from Corkscrew British Cemetery had been buried with Captain William Durie.

XIX. G. 18. COTTINGHAM WILLIAM CUTHBERT 23 07/07/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘448604’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF SAMUEL AND ANNIE L. E. COTTINGHAM, OF 245, EDISON AVENUE, ST. LAMBERT, P.Q. BORN AT ORMSTOWN, QUEBEC.
Corkscrew British Cem. Mem. 31. RUDDICK GEORGE RUEBEN 26 21/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65860’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF CHARLES AND JULIA RUDDICK.
Corkscrew British Cem. Mem. 32. CARLSEN HENRY CARL 25 21/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919475’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF MR. AND MRS. HENRY CARLSEN, OF 458, NINTH AVENUE, ROSEMOUNT, MONTREAL.
Corkscrew British Cem. Mem. 33. ROBERTSON DAVID 17 21/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749296’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH ROBERTSON.

BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION

Bully-Grenay the name of the railway station (on the main Hazebrouck-Arras line) serving this village and Grenay, but the double name generally applied to the village and the communal cemetery of Bully by the troops.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
Site of Bully-Grenay Corner, 55th Battery

III. D. 1. DAKERS ALBERT 27 29/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65240’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. DAVID DAKERS. NATIVE OF MONTROSE, SCOTLAND.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION, 23 April 2016, cefrg.ca

The FRENCH EXTENSION made by French troops on the west side of the communal cemetery, and Commonwealth forces, who took their place in this part of the line in June 1915, buried in it until June 1916.

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Before March, 1916, Aubigny in the area of the French Tenth Army, and 327 French soldiers were buried in the Extension to the West of what is now Plot IV. From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the Extension until September 1918.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
The explosion of a mine at the Mining School at Aubigny, 12th May 1916.

IV. F. 8. HENDERSON JOHN WILLIAM 19 14/07/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘624091’ SON OF THOMAS AND MARGARET HENDERSON, OF 6618 105TH ST., SOUTH EDMONDTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. NATIVE OF WOLSINGHAM, CO. DURHAM, ENGLAND.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension

The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the 30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps) and the 57th in 1918.

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

I. J. 10. INNES JOHN 18 01/07/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65481’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN INNES, OF STONEYCROFT FARM, STE ANNE DE BELLEVUE, QUEBEC. BORN MONTREAL.

CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

Chocques occupied by Commonwealth forces from the late autumn of 1914 to the end of the war. The village was at one time the headquarters of I Corps and from January 1915 to April 1918, No.1 Casualty Clearing Station posted there.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
16 April 2018, cefrg.ca

I. L. 36. ROBINS ERNEST 19 23/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749192’ SON OF ERNEST ROBINS, OF WINTERBOURNE GUNNER, SALISBURY.

Most of the burials from this period are of casualties who died at the clearing station from wounds received at the Bethune front.

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. D. 111. ROUTLEDGE 13/07/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65859’

ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY EXTENSION, FREVENT

From its position, Frevent was a place of some importance on the lines of communication during the war. The 43rd Casualty Clearing Station posted there from April to June 1916, part of the Lucknow Casualty Clearing Station in June, the 6th Stationary Hospital from June 1916 to the end of August 1918, and the 3rd Canadian, 19th and 43rd Casualty Clearing Stations in the summer of 1918.

J. 8. ROYER ADELARD 21 01/07/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684241’ SON OF MR. A. ROYER AND ALICE ROYER, OF WINDSOR MILLS, P.Q., CANADA. BORN AT CARRIER, P.Q.

The great majority of the burials in the cemetery carried out from these hospitals. St. Hilaire Cemetery Extension was used from March to August 1918 and after the Armistice, one grave of 1915 was brought in from Dennebroeucq.

AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

The Cemetery Extension begun by French troops early in 1915, and the two French plots are next to the Communal Cemetery.

I. G. 1. SCHOOLING JOSEPH WILLIAM 26 05/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412062’ SON OF MRS. H. SCHOOLING, OF ROMFORD, ENGLAND.

AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, 24 April 2015, cefrg.ca

It was taken over by the 1st and 2nd Divisions in February, 1916, and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances until October, 1918. It was increased after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields to the East.

August 1916

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

The village of Reninghelst (now Reningelst) occupied by Commonwealth forces from the late autumn of 1914 to the end of the war and was sufficiently far from the front line to provide a suitable station for field ambulances.

I. E. 21. BRIGDEN SAMUEL GEORGE 17 06/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124527’ SON OF JOHN THOMAS AND CATHERINE BRIGDEN, OF 34, POST OFFICE BUILDINGS, TRIANGLE, HALIFAX, ENGLAND.

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, 23 April 2015, cefrg.ca

The earliest burials took place in the Churchyard, but in November 1915, the New Military Cemetery was opened. It remained in use until September 1918.

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

L. 1. DAY 19/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142033’
L. 2. MULLIN WALTER EDWARD 22 19/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘444951’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. DANIEL MULLIN, OF STRATHADAM, NORTHUMBERLAND CO., NEW BRUNSWICK.
L. 6. RYAN 19/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454510’

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

VII. D. 20. MELVIN NORMAN EDWARD 19 04/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘470970’ SON OF MARY MELVIN, OF 4, DEWEY ST., NATICK, MASS., U.S.A. NATIVE OF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.
IX. C. 10A. ELLIS 17 18/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124502’ SON OF MRS. FRANCES ELLIS, OF 46, WILSON AVENUE, LONDON, ONTARIO.
IX. C. 17A. EBERWEIN GEORGE JAMES 30 21/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65303’ SON OF E. A. AND S. EBERWEIN, OF 2615A, ESPLANADE AVENUE, MONTREAL.

VIMY MEMORIAL

BULLOCK THOMAS 17/08/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66163’

September 1916

One hundred fifty men of the Victoria Rifles fell during actions on the Somme, with only fifty men recovered and buried in the following cemeteries.

ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

The villages of Miraumont and Pys occupied on 24-25 February 1917 following the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. Retaken by the Germans on 25 March 1918, but recovered the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on the following 24 August.

II. A. 22. CULLEN 16/09/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141891’
II. B. 2. WADE 16/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124061’
I. B. 27. CAREY 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘408978’
I. B. 26. CLENDINNING 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142263’
II. B. 23. DAVIS 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124455’
I. E. 32. FORD 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65339’
I. B. 18. HAYES JAMES 18 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65433’
I. B. 38. LYON ROBERT HENRY 23 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142536’
II. A. 29. MARGESON JAMES WILLIAM 42 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141968’
I. F. 37. MILLER 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416067’
I. F. 24. MORTON 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘445227’
I. C. 20. ROLLO ANDREW 32 17/09/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65845’
I. B. 24. TREVOR 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454318’
I. D. 19. WALINCK 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142013’
II. C. 1. WALKER 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142557’
I. F. 16. WHITE M M 17/09/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66150’
II. B. 11. WILLIAMS 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171240’

Piper James Cleland Richardson VC 12 August 2019 CEFRG

Adanac Military Cemetery (the name formed by reversing the name “Canada”) was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the Canadian battlefields around Courcelette and small cemeteries surrounding Miraumont.

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Albert held by French forces against the German advance on the Somme in September 1914. It passed into British hands in the summer of 1915; and the first fighting in July 1916, is known as the Battle of Albert, 1916.

Albert Cathedral showing the falling Statue. MIKAN No. 3403913

I. O. 33. CASEY EDWARD 28 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65163’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE CASEY, OF 797, QUERBES AVENUE, OUTREMONT, QUEBEC. NATIVE OF MONTREAL.
I. P. 42. QUINN THOMAS F. 32 30/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘121571’ SON OF G. H. AND MARIA QUINN, OF ST. ANDREWS, NEW BRUNSWICK.

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, 12 August 2019, cefrg.ca

It was captured by the Germans on the 26th April 1918, and before its recapture by the 8th East Surreys on the following 22nd August (in the Battle of Albert, 1918,) it had been completely destroyed by artillery fire.

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

The two plots in the communal cemetery, which were reserved for Commonwealth burials from September 1914 to March 1917, contain 160 double graves. These plots are on the south side of the central French monument, surrounded by civilian graves and raised above the level of the cemetery.

I. B. 1A. LOCKYER SIDNEY WILLIAM HENRY 30 20/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141721’ SON OF WILLIAM AND MARY LOCKYER, OF PORT COLBORNE, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY, 20 April 2016, cefrg.ca

The burials took place, for the most part, from No.8 General Hospital, which was quartered at Bois-Guillaume in a large private house and grounds. Plot II also contains the graves of servicemen killed in a railway accident on the 14th February 1917. From March 1917, burials were made in the adjoining cemetery extension.

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. C. 146. HAMILTON 19/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142280’
VII. B. 4. LAING MURDOCH 22 18/09/1916 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ONLY SON OF MR. AND MRS. JAMES N. LAING, OF 125, CEDAR AVENUE, MONTREAL.
VIII. C. 154. DOUCETTE FELIX 26 22/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415562’ SON OF THOMAS AND JULIA DOUCETTE, OF TUSKET, NOVA SCOTIA.

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XVI. A. 11. FERRIER GEORGE WATT 31 21/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171078’ SON OF HARRY R. AND MARGARET F. FERRIER, OF TORONTO. ONTARIO.
XVI. B. 9. GUNN ROBERT ADAM 39 22/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141913’ SON OF ALEXANDER AND JANE WATT GUNN, OF 144, CAMBRIDGE DRIVE, NORTH KELVINSIDE, GLASGOW.

MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT

During the war, Le Treport an important hospital centre and by July 1916, the town contained three general hospitals (the 3rd, 16th and 2nd Canadian), No.3 Convalescent Depot and Lady Murray’s B.R.C.S. Hospital. The 7th Canadian, 47th and 16th USA General Hospitals arrived later, but all of the hospitals had closed by March 1919.

II. F. 7. PEAKE 22 23/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454191’ SON OF ALFRED GEORGE AND JULIA PEAKE, OF LONDON.

MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT
10 August 2019, cefrg.ca

As the original military cemetery at Le Treport filled, it became necessary to use the new site at Mont Huon.

POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA BOISSELLE

The village of Pozieres attacked on 23 July 1916 by the 1st Australian and 48th (South Midland) Divisions, and taken on the following day. It was lost on 24-25 March 1918, during the great German advance, and recaptured by the 17th Division on the following 24 August.

III. R. 41. KENT 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412254’
III. R. 48. HARTLEY 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65424’
III. T. 23. BROWNELL 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469796’
III. T. 24. VANDER-HAYDEN FLORIAN 28 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65999’
III. T. 25. GUNN 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘470991’
III. T. 32. WARDELL HARRY THOMAS 24 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171233’
III. T. 33. CONLON 17/09/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65200’
III. T. 35. LEAVER SAMUEL EDWARD 19 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142561’

Plot II of POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY contains the original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by fighting units and field ambulances. The remaining plots were made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery, the majority of them of soldiers who died in the Autumn of 1916, but a few represent the fighting in August 1918.

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

In June 1916, just before the opening of the Battles of the Somme, the 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Puchevillers. Plots I to V, and almost the whole of Plot VI were made by those hospitals before the end of March 1917. For the next two months the 2nd/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station used the cemetery.

IV. F. 37. STEVENS GEORGE WILLIAM 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469510’ SON OF WILLIAM AND ROSE EMMA POOLE STEVENS, OF 575, ST. JOHN’S AVENUE, SOUTH COMMONS, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. LATE OF CHANNEL, NEWFOUNDLAND.
IV. F. 27. HEWSON 34 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141932’ HUSBAND OF CLARA I. HEWSON, OF 2406, N. KIMBALL AVENUE, CHICAGO, U.S.A. BORN AT PORT HOPE, ONTARIO.
IV. F. 12. CONLEY 18/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘136454’
IV. D. 32. NASH 21/09/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65718’
IV. D. 28. TAYLOR 25 21/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141789’ SON OF MR. R. H. AND MRS. S. TAYLOR, OF DERRYCARNE, PORTADOWN, IRELAND.

REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT

On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Grandcourt village was reached by part of the 36th (Ulster) Division, but it was not until the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, early in February 1917, that it was occupied by patrols of the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division. To the south-east of it is Courcelette, taken by the 2nd Canadian Division on 15 September 1916.

II. B. 34. BELL LEO FRANCIS 35 29/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘470190’ SON OF THE LATE JOHN & JOHANNA BELL; HUSBAND OF MARY BELL OF 60N CREIGHTON ST., HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.
II. A. 8. BUCKLEY WILLIAM 20 29/09/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65129’ SON OF WILLIAM AND EMILY HARRIS BUCKLEY, OF 83, ROSE DE LIMA ST., ST. HENRI, MONTREAL.
II. C. 35. FURZE FRANK 19 29/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171084’ SON OF THE LATE CLARA FURZE.

Regina Trench a German earthwork, captured for a time by the 5th Canadian Brigade on 1 October 1916, attacked again by the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions on 8 October, taken in part by the 18th and 4th Canadian Divisions on 21 October, and finally cleared by the 4th Canadian Division on 11 November 1916.

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1

In June 1916, the road out of Mailly-Maillet to Serre and Puisieux entered No Man’s Land about 1,300 metres south-west of Serre.

VIII. E. 7. STAGG HEDLEY CHARLES 21 12/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘141780’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. FREDERICK JOHN STAGG, OF GUERNSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS.

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1, 16 April 2016, cefrg.ca

On 1 July 1916, the 31st and 4th Divisions attacked north and south of this road, and although parties of the 31st Division reached Serre, the attack failed. The 3rd and 31st Divisions attacked once more on the 13 November, but again without success.

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2

Early in 1917, the Germans fell back to the Hindenburg Line and on 25 February, Serre was occupied by the 22nd Manchesters. The village changed hands once more in March 1918 and remained under German occupation, until they withdrew in August.

XIX. C. 5. DARLISON ALBERT 31 17/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124734’ SON OF HARRY DARLISON; HUSBAND OF THERESA DARLISON, OF 39, DUCHESS ST., LONDON, ONTARIO.
XVIII. D. 5. SCOTT 23 16/09/1916 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF ARTHUR H. AND MINNIE LOUISE DAVIS SCOTT, OF 36, ST. PAUL ST. EAST, MONTREAL. BORN AT MONTREAL.

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2, 16 April 2016, cefrg.ca

In the spring of 1917, the battlefields of the Somme and Ancre were cleared by V Corps and a number of new cemeteries were made, three of which are now named from the Serre Road. Serre Road Cemetery No.2 was begun in May 1917 and by the end of the war it contained approximately 475 graves (Plots I and II, except for Row E, Plot II which was added in 1922 and Row AA, Plot I which was added in 1927), but it was greatly enlarged after the Armistice.

ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN

During the war, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city.

B. 23. 77. PEEVER GORDON 18 26/09/1916 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘413028’ SON OF JOHN R. AND MARY A. PEEVER, OF MAYNOOTH, ONTARIO, CANADA.
B. 20. 50. SPENCER JAMES HAROLD 20 22/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171205’ SON OF WALTER HENRY AND CAROLINE SPENCER, OF 269, ASHDALE AVENUE, TORONTO, ONT., CANADA. NATIVE OF SURREY, ENGLAND.

Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross, one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension.

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON

The Sunken Road Cemetery was made in July-October 1916, during the middle fighting in the Somme offensive.

II. C. 5. WHERRY 25 15/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66036’ HUSBAND OF MRS. L. CARON, OF 292, CITY HALL AVENUE, MONTREAL.

Sunken Road Cemetery, 8 April 2017, cefrg.ca

WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

The first Commonwealth burial took place in the communal cemetery in October 1915 and the last on 1 July 1916. By that date, field ambulances had come to the village in readiness for the attack on the German front line eight kilometres away, and the extension was begun on the eastern side of the cemetery.

VIII. A. 1. WALSH WILLIAM 16/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66015’
VIII. A. 27. REID 20/09/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141986’

WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, 17 April 2016, cefrg.ca

The fighting from July to November 1916 on the northern part of the Somme front accounts for the majority of the burials in the extension, but some are from the German attack in the spring of 1918.

October 1916

Another 49 men fell in October 1916. Over half, 26, named on VIMY MEMORIAL.

Private Philip Ilderton Walker

Pvt Philip Ilderton Walker, 24th Battalion first wound stripe at the Sugar Refinery. Wounded, gsw left arm, 16.9.16. Pieces of glass and metal removed from arm at CCS 17.9.16. A bullet had hit his field glasses and travelled into his bicep. Captain Philip Ilderton Walker MC, 24th Battalion 22.9.16 at 2nd Western Hospital. Recovered by 3.10.16. Returned to 24th Bn.

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY

The site was chosen in August 1916 for burials from the 49th Casualty Clearing Station, which arrived at Contay at the end of August. It was joined by the 9th CCS in September. All the burials in Plots I to IV and the majority of those in Plots VII and VIII (the plot numbers V and VI were not used) cover the period August 1916 to March 1917. Most of them were made from these two clearing stations.

I. F. 10. BAVERSTOCK 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142260’
I. F. 8. KING 22 02/10/1916 Company Sergeant Major Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65528’ SON OF MARY KING, OF 978, TUPPER ST., MONTREAL.
II. A. 10. PARR 03/10/1916 Major Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
I. F. 11. LAW ALDEN LEONARD 24 04/10/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66185’ HUSBAND OF SOPHIA MILLER LAW, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917 brought the medical units further east and it was not until April 1918, when the Germans advanced to Albert, that the 38th and other Divisions used the cemetery again, completing Plots VII and VIII and forming the two rows in Plot IX. The last burial took place in August 1918.

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

The commune and the village of Courcelette the scene of very heavy fighting in September 1916. On the 15th, the village was included in the extreme left of the Allied attack and was taken by the 2nd Canadian Division supported by tanks, with the 4th and 6th Brigades storming the outer trenches and the sugar factory, and the 5th Brigade seizing the village. It was destroyed by German artillery after its capture and remained very close to the front line until the German retreat in the following spring.

VII. F. 26. WEINBERG 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66027’

The cemetery begun in November 1916 (as Mouquet Road or Sunken Road Cemetery), and used until March 1917. The original 74 burials are now parts of Plot I, Rows A to F.

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

VII. D. 3. DOWLING JOHN DANIEL ARCHIBALD 31 13/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469387’ SON OF DOUGLAS BLAKE AND ANNIE C. DOWLING, OF PORT HAWKESBURY, NOVA SCOTIA.

NIAGARA CEMETERY, IWUY

Iwuy occupied by British troops in the middle of October 1918, and Niagara Cemetery made at this time.

E. 15. THOMAS HARVEY MATHEW 19 13/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488940’ SON OF WILLIAM AND EMMA THOMAS, OF 79, CEDAR ST., HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.

REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT

III. F. 8. ANDERSON 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘414345’
II. D. 8. CHAESE FRANCIS STUART 23 01/10/1916 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66229’ SON OF A. IVY CHAESE, OF CALLE VALLARTA 5, COYOACAN, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, AND THE LATE A. T. FRANCIS CHAESE. EDUCATED AT EXETER SCHOOL, DEVON, ENGLAND. ENTERED BANK OF MONTREAL (MEXICO CITY BRANCH) 1909. TRANSFERRED TO HEAD OFFICE (MONTREAL), 1914. ENLISTED, 1915.
IV. B. 26. ECCLES HILTON BURNLEY 29 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65304’ HUSBAND OF THERESA ECCLES, OF IBRAMIEH, RAMLEH, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT.
II. F. 1. ELLIOTT RICHARD 32 01/10/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141903’ SON OF THOMAS AND MARGARET ELLIOTT, OF MOYBANE, IRELAND; HUSBAND OF ANNIE J. ELLIOTT, OF AUGHRIM, SPRINGFIELD, ENNISKILLEN, IRELAND.
IV. B. 11. FORBES 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65338’
IV. A. 10. OLIPHANT 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65747’
IV. B. 5. PROUDFOOT 01/10/1916 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘448201’
III. C. 2. WATSON 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455791’

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2

V. D. 5. ROY JOSEPH DELPHIS 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘471099’
XXXIX. J. 5. RUSSELL EDWARD 33 01/10/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65862’ HUSBAND OF LEAH GLASGOW (FORMERLY RUSSELL), OF 6686, DELANAUDIERE ST., MONTREAL.

ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN

November 1916

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

The extension was begun by French troops in October 1914 and when they moved south in March 1916 to be replaced by Commonwealth forces, it was used for burials by the 6th Casualty Clearing Station.

I. E. 33. BELL ALLEN WILLIAM 21 05/11/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘743168’ SON OF ANDREW AND HARRIET E. BELL, OF APOHAQUI, KING’S CO., NEW BRUNSWICK.
I. E. 36. TYRIE 11/11/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186797’

In November 1917, Barlin began to be shelled and the hospital was moved back to Ruitz, but the extension was used again in March and April 1918 during the German advance on this front.

VIMY MEMORIAL

COOPER JAMES 29/11/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65210’

December 1916

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

In November 1917, Barlin began to be shelled and the hospital was moved back to Ruitz, but the extension was used again in March and April 1918 during the German advance on this front.

I. E. 54. EWENS 07/12/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘136464’

TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY, AIX-NOULETTE

The cemetery begun by French troops in May 1915. They named the trench, and consequently the cemetery, using the Arab name for the town of Mequinez in Morocco, from which they had come.

K. 5. LANDRY 29/12/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454135’

The cemetery taken over by British units in February 1916, and besides its present name it was called at times Pioneer Point, Mechanics Trench and Corons d’Aix.

KEMMEL CHATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY

Kemmel Chateau north-east of Kemmel village and the cemetery established on the north side of the chateau grounds in December 1914. It continued to be used by divisions fighting on the southern sectors of the Belgian front until March 1918, when after fierce fighting involving both Commonwealth and French forces, the village and cemetery fell into German hands in late April.

G. 1. REID 01/12/1916 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66275’ (SERVED AS GORMAN).

The cemetery was retaken later in the year, but in the interval it was badly shelled and the old chateau destroyed.

1917

For the third consecutive month, the Victoria Rifles out of the trenches.

January 1917

TRANCHEE DE MECKNES CEMETERY, AIX-NOULETTE

L. 4. PERRON EDGORD 24 10/01/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘416090’ SON OF LOUIS PERRON, OF 15 1/2, ST. ONEZIME ST., LEVIS, P.Q.
L. 5. KING PETER 24 10/01/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841075’ ADOPTED SON OF MARGUERITE LEGOULT, OF 2149, BOULEVARD GOUIN, CARTIERVILLE, MONTREAL.
L. 6. MARTIN WILLIAM 29 10/01/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841683’ HUSBAND OF MARGARET J. MARTIN (NEE WATSON), OF 52, APPLETON AVENUE, TORONTO, ONTARIO.

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. F. 20. LYNOTT 19 19/01/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘444767’ SON OF SYLVESTER AND MARGARET LYNOTT, OF ST. GEORGE, NEW BRUNSWICK.

FOSSE NO.10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SAINS-EN-GOHELLE

The Extension on the South side of the Communal Cemetery. It was begun in April, 1916 and used continuously (chiefly by Field Ambulances) until October 1918.

I. A. 8. SINGER 12/01/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488287’

Of the Chinese labourers, seven were reburied in this cemetery after the Armistice.

Funeral of Captain Clement Gawler Mead MC, 19 January 1918, Fosse No. 10 Communal Cemetery Extension. MIKAN No. 3394948

February 1917

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

This cemetery really the extension of the communal cemetery, where the French army had buried over 1,000 men. The 46th (North Midland) Division took over the extension with this part of the line in March 1916, and their graves are in Rows A to F of Plot I.

IV. D. 18. AVELING CHARLES 36 17/02/1917 Private Canadian Infantry “D” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘841927’ SON OF MARY ANN AVELING, OF LONDON, ENGLAND; HUSBAND OF JESSIE J. AVELING, OF LENNOXVILLE, QUEBEC.

Grave of Major Gregory Vincent Nelson, 18th Can. Infantry Battalion. July, 1918 ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

Successive divisions used the French military tramway to bring their dead in from the front line trenches and, from the first row to the last, burials were made almost exactly in the order of date of death. The attack of the 25th Division on Vimy Ridge in May 1916 is recalled in Plots I and II. The 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division burials (July to October 1916) are in Plot III, Rows A to H, and Canadian graves are an overwhelming majority in the rest of the cemetery, Plots V and VI containing the graves of men killed in the capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917.

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Before March, 1916, Aubigny was in the area of the French Tenth Army, and 327 French soldiers were buried in the Extension to the West of what is now Plot IV. From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the Extension until September 1918.

I. G. 22. DEWITT HARRY 19/02/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘120945’
IV. D. 17. FORD 16/02/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469388’ ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

II. G. 12. MacMILLAN DONALD MacCALMAN 22 25 04 1917 Gunner Canadian Field Artillery 1st Bde. ‘40225’ AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

The extension to the communal cemetery was begun by French troops in October 1914, on land belonging to the Compagnie des Mines de Bruay. When the French Tenth Army handed over this part of the line to Commonwealth forces in March 1916, the 22nd Casualty Clearing Station, which was established at Bruay, continued to bury in it.

C. 13. KENNEDY WILLIAM 07/02/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742772’ SON OF THOMPSON KENNEDY, OF ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.
C. 17. ROLLINS ERNEST LEE 29 21/02/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749011’ SON OF CLARENCE AND HENRIETTA ROLLINS, OF GEORGEVILLE, P.Q., CANADA.

Nearly half the burials in the extension are from the Canadian Corps who occupied this sector from early in 1917.

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

IV. D. 9. PALMER HARRY 26 13/02/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186217’ SON OF FREDERICK AND THE LATE SARAH PALMER, OF 486. BEVERLEY ST., WINNIPEG. NATIVE OF AYLESBURY, BUCKS, ENGLAND.

March 1917

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. J. 22. CHAMBERS THOMAS 30/03/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749297’ SON OF THOMAS AND SARAH JANE CHAMBERS, OF EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX, ENGLAND.

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

For much of the war, Abbeville headquarters of the Commonwealth lines of communication and No.3 BRCS, No.5 and No.2 Stationary Hospitals were stationed there variously from October 1914 to January 1920.

II. C. 25. FOSBRE PATRICK GORDON 17 02/03/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841484’ SON OF PATRICK JOHN FOSBRE AND MARTHA, HIS WIFE, OF 17, WOODLAND AVENUE, VERDUN, MONTREAL.

The communal cemetery was used for burials from November 1914 to September 1916, the earliest being made among the French military graves. The extension was begun in September 1916.

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

IV. F. 5. HAWKINS 28 09/03/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF IRA EDWARD AND HETTIE LILLIAN HAWKINS, OF WOODSTOCK, NEW BRUNSWICK; HUSBAND OF ETHEL M. HAWKINS, OF AROOSTOOK JUNCTION, VICTORIA, NEW BRUNSWICK.
IV. F. 10. KIRK WILLIAM 24 11/03/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65530’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM KIRK, OF CHIRNSIDE, BERWICKSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
IV. G. 9. MYERS 24/03/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘48773’
IV. F. 6. PETURSON 10/03/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186668’
IV. G. 29. ROSE 24/03/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65848’

Pvt Philip Ilderton Walker, 24th Battalion second wound stripe La Folie Sector, wounded, rt arm slt. 10-3-17.

April 1917

Eighty-eight men fell during operations at Vimy, 21 of them named on VIMY MEMORIAL.

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. K. 29. FRY 06/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186332’
I. K. 58. L’HEUREUX 06/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748691’
II. A. 36. MOORE 20 12/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841315’

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. H. 39. DUNCAN WILLIAM CAMERON 18 11/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘748369’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM DUNCAN, LATE OF WOODSIDE, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND. BORN AT ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND.

BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY, THELUS

Bois-Carre British Cemetery begun by units of the 1^st Canadian Division in April 1917 and used until the following June. These 61 graves are in Plot I (a Canadian soldier, accidentally killed in 1919, was also buried in Plot I, Row F).

III. B. 18. ARBING 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742794’
I. E. 14. GOLDIE ALEXANDER JOSEPH 28 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘743256’ HUSBAND OF JOHANNA M. GOLDIE, OF 17, QUEEN ST., SAINT JOHN WEST, NEW BRUNSWICK.
III. E. 19. KING 19 14/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748954’ SON OF MRS. MARY KING, OF 1013, TUPPER ST., MONTREAL, AND THE LATE MR. W. M. H. KING.

The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the surrounding battlefields and burial grounds. There are now over 500 Great War and a small number of Second World War casualties commemorated in this site.

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

The extension to the communal cemetery begun by French troops in October 1914, on land belonging to the Compagnie des Mines de Bruay. When the French Tenth Army handed over this part of the line to Commonwealth forces in March 1916, the 22nd Casualty Clearing Station, which was established at Bruay, continued to bury in it.

D. 30. BRACKENRIDGE 10/04/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412368’

Nearly half the burials in the extension are from the Canadian Corps who occupied this sector from early in 1917.

DOUAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Douai was occupied by French troops and the Royal Naval Air Service on the 22nd September, 1914, and captured by the Germans on the 1st October; it remained in enemy hands until the 17th October, 1918.

A. 16. RHYNER 38 17/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186680’ DOUAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY SON OF MRS. ROSA RHYNER, OF LU VERNE, IOWA, U.S.A.

The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station was posted in the town from the 28th October, 1918, to the 25th November, 1919.

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

V. E. 2. DUMAS JOSEPH ADELARD 27 10/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘458341’ SON OF ADELARD AND ELISE DUMAS. BORN IN PUTNAM, CONN., U.S.A.
V. F. 3. EDGLEY ERNEST LLOYD 22 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65306’ NEPHEW OF RICHARD W. LLOYD, OF 103, OAKWOOD COURT, KENSINGTON, LONDON. HE WAS AN EMPLOYEE IN THE MONTREAL OFFICE OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
VI. C. 28. JONES 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841472’
VI. E. 19. MACARTHUR JAMES MacPHERSON 25 09/04/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF ADA E. AND THE LATE JOHN MACARTHUR, OF 313, PICCADILLY ST., LONDON, ONTARIO.
VI. E. 18. SMYTH GEORGE CRAWFORD 25 09/04/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. SON OF CHARLES EDWARD AND JANET LAW SMYTH, OF 433, LANSDOWNE AVENUE, WESTMOUNT, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XIX. A. 6. ASHCROFT ALBERT EDWARD 19 17/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841294’ SON OF MRS. AND THE LATE SAMUEL ASHCROFT, OF WALTON, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.
XIX. E. 8A. CRAWFORD 20/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749258’
XIX. J. 12. SCHUH ALBERT OTTO 19 25/04/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748058’ BORN AT GLASGOW.

LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY, VIMY

Vimy Ridge was taken by the Canadian Corps in April 1917 in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, although the 25^th and 47^th (London) Divisions had also been involved in heavy fighting there in May 1916. The cemetery was made at the foot of the ridge, on the north-eastern side, next to a house which had contained a camouflaged German gun position.

VIII. D. 10. RABEY 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘889855’

It remained very small until the summer of 1919, when graves were brought in from many other small cemeteries and isolated sites (some of these from the 1916 fighting) on or near the ridge. At this time, the cemetery was known as Vimy Canadian Cemetery No.1.

LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY

The first burials were made in Plot I of the cemetery in September 1915, but it was most heavily used during the Battle of Arras, which began in April 1917.

III. G. 6. ALLEN JAMES FRANKLIN 18 10/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘201002’ SON OF JOSEPH E. AND IDA ALLEN, OF 15, MUIR AVENUE, TORONTO.
III. B. 3. COCHRANE 10/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842031’
III. C. 14. McKAY 15/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘470502’ SON OF AGNES MCKAY, OF GRAND CASCAPEDIA, P.Q., CANADA.
II. F. 14. STANISTREET 10/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841671’

The dead were brought to the cemetery from casualty clearing stations, chiefly the 18th and the 23rd at Lapugnoy and Lozinghem, but between May and August 1918 the cemetery was used by fighting units.

LICHFIELD CRATER, THELUS

Lichfield Crater was one of two mine craters (the other being Zivy Crater) which were used by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer in 1917 for the burial of bodies found on the Vimy battlefield. The numerous groups of graves made about this time by the Canadians were not named as a rule, but serially lettered and numbered; the original name for Lichfield Crater was CB 2 A.

ASTLE GEORGE ESMONDE 21 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415765’ SON OF OSWALD ASTLE, OF 101, NORTH RD., CLAYTON, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, AND THE LATE ALICE ASTLE. BORN AT NORTHWICH, CHESHIRE.
BRENNAN 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841012’
DAVIES 25/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65246’
KIMBALL 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749295’

LAWLER 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘187619’
L’ECUYER AMEDEE 39 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842142’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. I. P. L’ECUYER, OF 326, LAGAUCHETIERE ST. EAST, MONTREAL. BORN AT JOLIETTE, P.Q., CANADA.
MATHESON 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841653’
McKAY WILLIAM ARTHUR 33 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841168’ SON OF ROBERT AND MARGARET BURNS MCKAY, OF 131, LONGWOOD AVENUE, ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.
NAYLOR LEWIS 29 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171176’ SON OF JAMES NAYLOR, OF 6, WILSON ST., COMMERCIAL RD., HALIFAX, ENGLAND.
RENAUD 19 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841237’ SON OF AUSTIN RENAUD AND HIS WIFE, JANE DUBOUTT, OF HAREMBEGA, ONTARIO. BORN AT WIER, QUEBEC.

The crater essentially a mass grave and contains 57 Great War burials, 15 of them unidentified. All of the men buried here died on 9 or 10 April 1917 with one exception, a soldier who died in April 1916, whose grave was found on the edge of the crater after the Armistice and is the only one marked by a headstone. The names of the rest of those buried in the crater are inscribed on panels fixed to the boundary wall.

NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY, THELUS

“Nine Elms” the name given by the Army to a group of trees 460 metres east of the Arras-Lens main road, between Thelus and Roclincourt. The cemetery was begun, after the capture of Vimy Ridge, by the burial in what is now Plot I, Row A of 80 men of the 14^th Canadian Infantry Battalion, who fell on 9 April 1917; and this and the next row were filled by June 1917. Three burials were made in Plot I, Row C, in July 1918.

III. D. 17. GALLAGHER 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488956’
III. D. 13. MAXWELL 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742185’
IV. D. 18. McCULLOUGH WALLACE SCOTT 20 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748318’
III. D. 14. ROBERTSON 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘700725’
IV. D. 19. VICKERY 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488970’

ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY, ARLEUX-EN-GOHELLE

The cemetery was begun in April 1917, on the new front resulting from the Battles of Arras, and it was used by the units holding that front until the following November. These original burials are in Plot VI, Row K, and Plot I, Rows A to F. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice.

III. H. 27. BARLOW RONALD 32 09/04/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66237’ SON OF JOHN RIGNEY BARLOW AND HIS WIFE, MARGARET COUTTS DARRACH, OF 578, EARNSCLIFFE AVENUE. MONTREAL.

Orchard Dump Cemetery, 20 April 2019, cefrg.ca

QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY, ESTREE-CAUCHY

The area used by Dressing Stations during the greater part of the War, and the cemetery was begun by French troops in June 1915, and carried on by British Field Ambulances from March 1916 to April 1918.

III. B. 17. McKITRICK 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘180096’

The 335 French and 19 German graves removed after the Armistice to other cemeteries. Gunner Pttam Singh once buried here, but following the war, his remains exhumed and properly cremated. Note his headstone inscription HONOURED HERE, implies he is no longer buried at Quatre Vents.

THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY

The village, which stands on the Vimy Ridge, captured by the Canadian Corps on 9 April 1917, and it remained in British hands until the end of the War. The oldest part of Thelus Military Cemetery is a large grave, originally called “CB 8” and now forming Plot II, which was made after the capture of Vimy Ridge.

II. E. 11. BEAZLEY 09/04/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488902’
V. A. 3. BURGESS VICTOR GEORGE 19 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842069’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF MRS. ISABELLA BURGESS, OF 3588, VERUILLE ST., MONTREAL.
II. B. 9. BUTLER CHARLES ANDREW 19 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841897’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES WILLIAM BUTLER, OF 141, GLEN AVENUE, OTTAWA, ONTARIO.
II. C. 1. CALLAGHAN EDSON ARTHUR 23 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841667’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF JAMES CALLAGHAN AND HIS WIFE E. JOHNSON, OF STANBRIDGE EAST, P.Q., CANADA.
II. B. 8. DRAPER FRANK 19 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141893’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF GEORGE AND EMMA DRAPER, OF CLARENDON PLACE, BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.
II. A. 12. HILL 22 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841677’ SON OF JOS AND KATE HILL, OF 3815, GERTRUDE ST., VERDUN, MONTREAL.
II. E. 13. JOHNSON EDWARD 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749254’
II. B. 15. LAWLOR WILLIAM 44 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘701005’ SON OF JOHN AND ANNE LAWLOR, OF DUDLEY, STAFFORD, ENGLAND.
II. B. 5. MACIVOR 09/04/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘187658’
II. C. 2. MARSHALL SAMUEL 41 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841336’
II. E. 12. McAULAY 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘470523’
II. B. 4. McLACHLAN 34 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841680’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF JOHN AND MARION MCLACHLAN; HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH MCLACHLAN, OF 342, HIBERNIA RD., MONTREAL. BORN AT FALKIRK, SCOTLAND.

II. B. 11. QUACKENBUSH GEORGE DRAYPER 24 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘408565’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF PHILIP AND JOANNA QUACKENBUSH, OF KINBURN, ONTARIO. BORN AT WHITNEY, ONTARIO.
II. B. 6. RILEY CHARLES GORDON 21 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124319’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY ONLY SON OF MINTA BROWN RILEY, OF INWOOD, ONTARIO, AND THE LATE LAWRENCE A. RILEY.
II. B. 10. ROSE 22 09/04/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186231’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF KONTORCHY S. T. ROSE, OF FAXE LADYSLADS, DENMARK.
II. B. 14. SKINNER ALBERT V. 27 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘743021’ THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY (SERVED AS VERNON), SON OF JEREMIAH AND MARY SKINNER, OF SPRINGFIELD, LONG ISLAND; HUSBAND OF MAUD ESTELLE ULRICH (FORMERLY SKINNER), OF WALLKILL, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
II. E. 14. TERENTIEV SAMUEL 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748693’
II. B. 13. TERRAULT JULIUS DANIEL 28 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841944’ SON OF JULIUS TERRAULT AND HIS WIFE, ANNA KENNY, OF CORNWALL, ONTARIO.
II. E. 15. THOMSON JOHN 22 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748589’ SON OF WILLIAM AND JESSIE THOMSON, OF BEEBE POST OFFICE, P.Q. CANADA. BORN IN ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
II. E. 10. VUSACHENKO DERNIAN 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748646’
II. B. 7. WALTER 33 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186280’ SON OF JOSEPH FRANCE WALTER AND ELIZA ANN WALTER.

The remaining Plots made by fighting units from June 1917 to September 1918, except for Plot IV and part of Plot V, which were brought in from the battlefields of Vimy and Thelus after the Armistice.

TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES

Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines taken by Commonwealth troops on 9 April 1917, but it was partly in German hands again from March to August 1918.

III. A. 10. SYMONDS 11/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919926’

The cemetery 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.

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Wimereux the headquarters of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxilliary Corps during the Great War and in 1919 it became the General Headquarters of the British Army.

II. G. 4. DUDLEY GRIFFITH ERNEST 20 12/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919696’ SON OF ERNEST AND ELIZABETH ROLLINS-DUDLEY, OF ROLLIN’S HILL, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.
II. H. 10. LE BOUTILLIER LEO BELLEAU 23 D C M 18/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65553’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. C. SUTTON LE BOUTILLIER, OF GASPE, QUEBEC.

From October 1914 onwards, Boulogne and Wimereux formed an important hospital centre and until June 1918, the medical units at Wimereux used the communal cemetery for burials, the south-eastern half having been set aside for Commonwealth graves, although a few burial also made among the civilian graves. By June 1918, this half of the cemetery filled, and subsequent burials from the hospitals at Wimereux were made in the new military cemetery at Terlincthun.

ZIVY CRATER, THELUS

Zivy Crater was one of two mine craters (the other being Lichfield Crater) which were used by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer in 1917 for the burial of bodies found on the Vimy battlefield. The numerous groups of graves made about this time by the Canadians were not named as a rule, but serially lettered and numbered; the original name for Zivy Crater Cemetery was CB 1.

FAHEY PERCY EDWARD 22 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742161’ ZIVY CRATER, THELUS SON OF THOMAS EDWARD AND KATHERINE E. FAHEY, OF MILLTOWN, NEW BRUNSWICK.
LEARIE 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749318’
McGRATH 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842083’

The crater essentially a mass grave and contains 53 Great War burials, five of them unidentified. The names of the men buried in the crater, all of whom died in April or May 1917, are inscribed on panels fixed to the boundary wall

VIMY MEMORIAL

BATT STANLEY 20 23/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841358’ SON OF EDOUARD BATT, AND HIS WIFE, MARY GANAY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.
BRUNDAGE CLAUDE LIONEL 22 09/04/1917 Lance Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488319’ SON OF WILLIAM T. BRUNDAGE, OF AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.
BULLARD MERLE FREDERICK 22 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748853’ SON OF FREDERICK E. AND ELMA E. BULLARD, OF MAGOG, P.Q. ENLISTED IN 117TH BN.
COAPLAND GLENN 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841919’
COATES FRANCIS FREDERICK (FRANK) 20 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘440891’ VIMY MEMORIAL SON OF F. W. AND ELSIE COATES, OF SHUSWAP, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
DAVIS ROBERT 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘123091’
GILMORE JAMES ALEXANDER 29 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘247374’ VIMY MEMORIAL SON OF ALEXANDER AND LYDIA JANE GILMORE, OF NORTH HEAD, CHARLOTTE CO., NEW BRUNSWICK.
HOURD WILLIAM 09/04/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186149’
JOHNSON FREDERICK 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124029’
KUCHAR WASILI 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742116’
MARTIN ALFRED 30/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘133108’
McCUBBIN ALEXANDER 20 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66204’ SON OF MRS. MARY MCCUBBIN, OF 4717, DELORIMIER AVENUE, MONTREAL.
MULLINS EDWARD JOHN 25 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘65648’ SON OF JOHN MULLINS AND HIS WIFE CATHERINE COYLE, OF 124, OTTAWA ST., MONTREAL.
PARTON WILLIAM 31 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘701258’ SON OF HENRY AND ELIZABETH PARTON, OF GARAFOG FARM, PENNENFFORD, TALGARTH, BRECONSHIRE, WALES.
PAYNE FREDERICK THOMAS 36 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748123’ HUSBAND OF CHARLOTTE C. PAYNE, OF MONTREAL, P.Q.
PETERS STANLEY WALLACE 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842161’
ROBINSON LEVI 38 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469302’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN ROBINSON.
STAPLES ARTHUR 24 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65932’ ELDEST SON OF ELIZABETH ALICE STAPLES (NEE MCCLELLAN), OF 591, VILLA MARIE ST., MONTREAL, AND THE LATE EDWARD BIRD STAPLES.
TICE PERCY WALLACE 36 14/04/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘193205’ SON OF JESSIE TICE, OF 14, NIGHTINGALE ST., HAMILTON, AND THE LATE JACOB WESLEY TICE, HUSBAND OF MABEL V. PORTER (FORMERLY TICE). OF MAIN ST., AND KENILWORTH AVENUE, HAMILTON, ONTARIO.
WHITE 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412440’
WOODS GEORGE 37 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘437318’ SON OF MRS, HANNAH JANE WOODS, OF CUTKNIFE, SASKATCHEWAN.

BATT STANLEY 20 23/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841358’ SON OF EDOUARD BATT, AND HIS WIFE, MARY GANAY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.
BRUNDAGE CLAUDE LIONEL 22 09/04/1917 Lance Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488319’ SON OF WILLIAM T. BRUNDAGE, OF AMHERST, NOVA SCOTIA.
BULLARD MERLE FREDERICK 22 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748853’ SON OF FREDERICK E. AND ELMA E. BULLARD, OF MAGOG, P.Q. ENLISTED IN 117TH BN.
COAPLAND GLENN 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841919’
COATES FRANCIS FREDERICK (FRANK) 20 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘440891’ VIMY MEMORIAL SON OF F. W. AND ELSIE COATES, OF SHUSWAP, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
DAVIS ROBERT 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘123091’
GILMORE JAMES ALEXANDER 29 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘247374’ VIMY MEMORIAL SON OF ALEXANDER AND LYDIA JANE GILMORE, OF NORTH HEAD, CHARLOTTE CO., NEW BRUNSWICK.
HOURD WILLIAM 09/04/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186149’
JOHNSON FREDERICK 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124029’
KUCHAR WASILI 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742116’
MARTIN ALFRED 30/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘133108’
McCUBBIN ALEXANDER 20 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66204’ SON OF MRS. MARY MCCUBBIN, OF 4717, DELORIMIER AVENUE, MONTREAL.
MULLINS EDWARD JOHN 25 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘65648’ SON OF JOHN MULLINS AND HIS WIFE CATHERINE COYLE, OF 124, OTTAWA ST., MONTREAL.

PARTON WILLIAM 31 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘701258’ SON OF HENRY AND ELIZABETH PARTON, OF GARAFOG FARM, PENNENFFORD, TALGARTH, BRECONSHIRE, WALES.
PAYNE FREDERICK THOMAS 36 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748123’ HUSBAND OF CHARLOTTE C. PAYNE, OF MONTREAL, P.Q.
PETERS STANLEY WALLACE 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842161’
ROBINSON LEVI 38 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469302’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN ROBINSON.
STAPLES ARTHUR 24 09/04/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65932’ ELDEST SON OF ELIZABETH ALICE STAPLES (NEE MCCLELLAN), OF 591, VILLA MARIE ST., MONTREAL, AND THE LATE EDWARD BIRD STAPLES.
TICE PERCY WALLACE 36 14/04/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘193205’ SON OF JESSIE TICE, OF 14, NIGHTINGALE ST., HAMILTON, AND THE LATE JACOB WESLEY TICE, HUSBAND OF MABEL V. PORTER (FORMERLY TICE). OF MAIN ST., AND KENILWORTH AVENUE, HAMILTON, ONTARIO.
WHITE 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412440’
WOODS GEORGE 37 09/04/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘437318’ SON OF MRS, HANNAH JANE WOODS, OF CUTKNIFE, SASKATCHEWAN.

May 1917

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. A. 18. DAKIN CHESTER BERMOUNT 20 06/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘49394’ BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION SON OF THOMAS ANDREW DAKIN AND THE LATE MINNIE PORTER DAKIN, OF WOLFVILLE, NOVA SCOTIA.
III. A. 23. McRAE DUNCAN HARRY 20 07/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742819’ BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION SON OF FREDERICK AND ANNIE MCRAE.
III. A. 46. PARLEE ERIC RAUDE 20 08/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742256’ BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION SON OF WM. HENRY AND LILY MAY PARLEE, OF NORTON, KING’S CO., NEW BRUNSWICK.
III. A. 11. RUDMAN ALOYSIUS JOHN 26 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘187690’ BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION SON OF MR. AND MRS. J. A. RUDMAN, OF 18, HART RD., ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

IV. B. 27. SAWYER 17/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748670’

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

G. 7. ZINKOI 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘190341’

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XVIII. J. 10. BURTON 04/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748912’
XXV. D. 10. RALSTON 24/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454317’

LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. B. 14. BRYENTON 28/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘49374’

VIMY MEMORIAL

ASH FRANCIS 25 05/05/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469417’
BOWDEN WILLIAM C. 18/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65100’
BROOM CHARLES SIDNEY 18/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘123916’
BROWN FREDERICK YOUNG 20 M M 19/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65121’
DERADOUR THOMAS 19 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841947’
DIBLEY ERNEST 19 06/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841778’
ELDRIDGE GEORGE 38 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412576’
INGALLS CARL DANIEL 21 M M 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742476’

McCLARE PERCY WINTHROP 19 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488944’
MEHAN CHARLES HENRY 28 02/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742962’
MONAHAN ROY FREDERICK 30 05/05/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748907’
MOORE JOHN LEWIS 23 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘602299’
RICKNER WILLIAM 26 05/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748921’
ROBSON ARNOLD 06/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841722’
SALVIDGE EDWARD 22 02/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142624’
YOUNG-LESLIE DONALD 23 18/05/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412762’

June 1917

QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY, ESTREE-CAUCHY

I. C. 18. HALKYARD 13/06/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919160’

Pvt Philip Ilderton Walker, 24th Battalion appt a/cpl 17.6.17.

July 1917

AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. G. 1. SCHOOLING JOSEPH WILLIAM 26 05/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412062’

BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION

III. D. 1. DAKERS ALBERT 27 29/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65240’ BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION SON OF MR. AND MRS. DAVID DAKERS. NATIVE OF MONTROSE, SCOTLAND.

CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. L. 36. ROBINS ERNEST 19 23/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749192’ SON OF ERNEST ROBINS, OF WINTERBOURNE GUNNER, SALISBURY.

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY

XIX. G. 18. COTTINGHAM WILLIAM CUTHBERT 23 07/07/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘448604’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF SAMUEL AND ANNIE L. E. COTTINGHAM, OF 245, EDISON AVENUE, ST. LAMBERT, P.Q. BORN AT ORMSTOWN, QUEBEC.
Corkscrew British Cem. Mem. 32. CARLSEN HENRY CARL 25 21/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919475’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF MR. AND MRS. HENRY CARLSEN, OF 458, NINTH AVENUE, ROSEMOUNT, MONTREAL.
Corkscrew British Cem. Mem. 33. ROBERTSON DAVID 17 21/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749296’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH ROBERTSON.
Corkscrew British Cem. Mem. 31. RUDDICK GEORGE RUEBEN 26 21/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65860’ LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF CHARLES AND JULIA RUDDICK.

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. G. 7. CAMPBELL HARRY DAVIES 37 Mentioned in Despatches 30/07/1917 Captain Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. HON. CAPT.AND QMR. SON OF THE LATE ALEXANDER AND JANET CAMPBELL, OF ENGLAND; HUSBAND OF SARAH JANE CAMPBELL, OF PERTH, ONTARIO.
II. D. 13. DONALD 03/07/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
II. F. 22. WRIGHT ALFRED 43 25/07/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919869’

Honorary Captain Harry Davies Campbell

Honorary Captain Harry Davies Campbell born 31 July 1879 at Pendleton, Lancashire, England, the son of Alexander and Janet Campbell. He had served for five years with the 2nd Battalion, 4th King’s Own Royal Regiment, British Army, and then for eleven years with the Royal Canadian Regiment and the Victoria Rifles. Enlisted on 19 January 1916 at Montreal, Quebec with the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force. He had been the regimental Quartermaster since September 1915 when the regiment sailed for Great Britain.

Campbell Mentioned in Despatches for his valuable services when the regiment came under attack while relieving the 25th Battalion on 2 March 1916, and again in May 1917 after Vimy Ridge. On 29 July 1917 the Quartermaster’s Stores in Bully Grenay, France were struck by a German naval shell, killing Private Dakers and severely wounding Hon. Capt. Campbell. He died the next day, 30 July 1917, aged 37 years.

Major Alexander Railton Campbell the son of Honorary Captain Harry Davies Campbell. While on active service in Italy with the Canadian Army, Major A.R. Campbell killed, a casualty of the Second World War.

August 1917

First significant casualties since First Battle of Arras, 90 men fell during operations at the Battle of Hill 70. Fifty-nine casualties on VIMY MEMORIAL.

AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. B. 4. CRAINE 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘847306’
I. K. 1. KERR JAMES 44 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘276504’ SON OF WILLIAM AND AGNES KERR, OF STRASBOURG, SASKATCHEWAN.
I. N. 22. LAIRD JOHN HEWITT 19 15/08/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF JOHN AND J. GRACE IRVINE LAIRD, OF 58, URSULA ST., QUEBEC.
I. J. 15. LAMBERT 28 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘414251’ SON OF HENRY AND ANNIE LAMBERT; HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH C. LAMBERT, OF 173, GRAFTON ST., HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. BORN IN ENGLAND.
I. K. 2. MAZUKEVICH 25 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054809’ SON OF GRIGORIJ AND ANASTASIA MAZUKEVICH, OF POWIAT, NESWIZEE, IMINA, SINIAWKA.
I. K. 9. McPIKE GEORGE 20 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘267216’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE MCPIKE, OF 20, BOYD ST., KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.
I. J. 16. MILLER 18 17/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919271’ SON OF GEORGE W. MILLER, OF 169, EDISON AVENUE, ST. LAMBERT, P.Q., CANADA.
I. G. 22. MUISE 03/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742814’
I. H. 17. O’CONNOR CHARLES EDMUND 20 16/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919686’ SON OF EDMUND AND MARGARET O’CONNOR, OF BIRTLE DENE, HARDHORN RD., POULTON-LE-FYLDE, PRESTON, LANCS, ENGLAND. BORN AT BURY, LANCS.
I. K. 15. RITCHIE HUBERT SYDNEY 25 15/08/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF ARTHUR DUDLEY RITCHIE AND ROSINA NEWTON RITCHIE, OF 368, ST. JAMES ST., MONTREAL. BORN AT WESTMOUNT, P.Q., CANADA. GAZETTED ON THE FIELD.
I. H. 21. ROUND 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919517’

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. D. 5. BURNS JOHN EDWARD 22 15/08/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘412180’
III. D. 15. OGILVIE 18/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919167’

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

VI. F. 77. SMITH 16/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920102’

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

H. 28. DUTKA 16/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘491640’
H. 24. LUCKETT FRANK 25 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469367’
H. 29. MYERS 17/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841929’
H. 33. O’REILLY 18/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469426’
H. 40. OSABLINK 21/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919835’
H. 32. TYO 17/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455401’

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXII. R. 9. COUTURE 21 30/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748642’
XXV. N. 15. FOX 22/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘645967’
XXV. O. 16A. FULLER ALEXANDER SMART 22 29/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748607’
XXII. R. 12. O’REILLY 30/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1048180’

FOSSE NO.10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SAINS-EN-GOHELLE

II. C. 29. ELLIS 15/08/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455431’

LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY

V. B. 15. ELLIOTT 35 17/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748023’ SON OF MRS. E. ALLIN, OF 2A, PULBOURN RD., FOREST RD., WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, ENGLAND; HUSBAND OF MRS. H. W. WILKINSON (FORMERLY ELLIOTT), OF 73, PARTHENAIS ST., MONTREAL, CANADA.

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. D. 54. PETERSON 20 31/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841465’ LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY SON OF MRS. ELLEN PETERSON, OF 101, PLESSIS ST., MONTREAL.

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY

Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 41. BILTON OLIVER 27 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘414485’
V. B. 5. CARROLL 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919635’
V. B. 6. DANIEL REGINALD HUBERT HAMILTON 27 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054314’
V. D. 3. GILBERTSON 15/08/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65364’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 35. MARCHAND 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054556’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 34. McGARTLAND WILLIAM 17 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘736667’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 40. MORRISON 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘887832’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 39. OLSEN 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919898’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 37. WARD 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742393’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 38. WILLIAMS 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920085’
Lens Canadian Cem. No. 3. Mem. 36. WILSON 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘701256’

MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY

The cemetery begun by French troops in August 1915, but first used as a Commonwealth cemetery by the 47th (London) Division in January 1916. During the greater part of the war it was a front-line cemetery used by fighting units and field ambulances, and protected from German observation by a slight rise in the ground. Plot II was begun in April 1917 by the 46th (North Midland) Division and by the middle of October 1918, Plot III, Row A and part of Row B, had been filled.

III. H. 7. GREEN 20 15/08/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘267434’ MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY SON OF MR. AND MRS. MOSES GREEN, OF EDMORE, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA. NATIVE OF BRIERCLIFFE, BURNLEY, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND.

The remainder of Plot III, and the ends of certain rows in Plot I, contain graves brought in after the Armistice from the battlefields and small cemeteries (including Maroc Churchyard), north and east of Grenay.

September 1917

LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST

La Targette British Cemetery, formerly known as Aux-Rietz Military Cemetery, was begun at the end of April 1917 and used by field ambulances and fighting units until September 1918.

I. H. 31. ALDEN EDGAR 19 21/09/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘660505’ STEP-BROTHER OF CAROLINE BIRD, OF THE VICARAGE, ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW, BUNGAY, ENGLAND. BORN AT BECCLES, ENGLAND.

Nearly a third of the graves have an artillery connection; in March-April 1917, the artillery of the 2nd Canadian and 5th Divisions, and certain heavy artillery units, had their headquarters in a deep cave at Aux-Rietz.

Corporal Philip Ilderton Walker, 24th Battalion third wound stripe at Assembly Area M.12.b. Hill 70. GSW mult. sev. (elbow and legs) 15-8-17. Relinquishes rank of a/capt 15.8.17.

October 1917

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. F. 29. McIVOR 12/10/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841548’
III. F. 30. SANDERS EDWIN FRANCIS 24 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919018’

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

VI. K. 24. BROPHY 29 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919023’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. EDWARD BROPHY, OF MONTREAL; HUSBAND OF DORA WAINWRIGHT BROPHY, OF 750, SHUTER ST., MONTREAL.
VI. K. 23. DURMAN MC 15/10/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
VI. K. 26. GOLDING FREDERICK JAMES 25 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054495’ SON OF AMELIA SOPHIA GOLDING, OF 49, COLLEGE ST., HOMERTON, LONDON.
VI. K. 20. HALLAM 12/10/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
VI. K. 21. REDGRAVE GEORGE 27 11/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054456’ SON OF ROBT. C. AND SARAH REDGRAVE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.
VI. K. 25. TURNBULL JOHN LOVE 40 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841246’ SON OF MATTHEW AND KATHERINE TURNBULL, OF BARRHEAD, SCOTLAND; HUSBAND OF MARY H. E. TURNBULL, OF 95, RUSTHALL AVENUE, BEDFORD PARK, LONDON.

Lieutenant Arthur Durman MC

Son of the late Serjt. Maj. F. J. Durman (3rd Hussars) and Mrs. M. E. Durman, of 206, Belgrave Avenue, Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal. Glasgow, Scotland.

Brother of Private Fred Durman (YPRES TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION), who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment).

LA CLYTTE MILITARY CEMETERY

III. D. 9. HENDY 07/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454467’

LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST

I. G. 11. BLANCHARD 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749002’
I. G. 13. DENT 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘672311’
I. G. 8. PEARCE 14/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841038’
I. G. 12. SMITH 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415843’

VIMY MEMORIAL

BURNS JOHN 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1078419’
CONNOLLY JOHN 15/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘270’
McELMON ARTHUR RUPERT 11/10/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488981’

November 1917

Eighty-nine men fell during Second Battle of Passchendaele. Fifty-six named on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

XI. A. 18. KRIVORUK JUSTIN 10/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘491509’

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

The village of Lijssenthoek situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the Front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place to establish Casualty Clearing Stations (CCS). Most of the soldiers buried here succumbed to their wounds at a nearby CCS.

XXII. E. 10A. GARDNER 07/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919405’
XXII. G. 13A. GAUNT 30 M M 07/11/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65356’
XXII. E. 18A. GLENNON 35 07/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919349’
XXII. G. 2. LIBBY 07/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742835’
XXII. AA. 14. MACLEOD 08/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65707’
XXII. E. 8A. McNULTY 06/11/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘124339’
XXII. AA. 17. STOCKALL 09/11/1917 Lance Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘470188’
XXII. G. 9. WILLIAMSON 08/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920086’

PASSCHENDAELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

The village of Passchendaele (now Passendale) and surrounding area associated with every phase of the Great War. In the middle of October 1914, Passchendaele was briefly under Allied occupation but by 20 October it was in German hands, where it remained for the next three years. On 6 November 1917, after the severest fighting in most unfavourable weather, the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade took, and passed, the village; this fight was part of the Second Battle of Passchendaele, the last of the Battles of Ypres, 1917. In the middle of April 1918, in the Battles of the Lys, the Allied line was withdrawn far back on the road to Ypres, but on 29 September, in the course of the Allied offensive in Flanders, Belgian forces recaptured the village.

Casualties

XIII. F. 3. ADAMS JOSEPH VICTOR 24 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘889842’ SON OF MRS. ARTHUR MCKENZIE (FORMERLY ADAMS), OF POINTE-A-NAVEAU, GASPE CO., QUEBEC.
XIII. E. 23. ASTELS HERMAN WOODBURN 19 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘889701’ SON OF THOMAS AND SARAH JANE ASTELS (NEE GARRETT), OF NEW CARLISLE, QUEBEC.
XIV. D. 28. BROPHY LAWRENCE WALTER 19 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919582’ SON OF JOHN AND MARGARET BROPHY, OF 234, MANCE ST., MONTREAL.
XIV. D. 29. GREENWOOD 20 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘243521’ SON OF FRED KAYE GREENWOOD, OF 180, CUNDY ST., WALKLEY, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND.
IV. A. 29. HUNTER 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748127’
XIII. F. 19. KEOUGH 17 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054381’ SON OF DANIEL AND ELIZABETH KEOUGH, OF 44, ST. JULIA ST., QUEBEC.
XI. B. 14. LOWE SAMUEL ERNEST 21 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841506’ SON OF THOMAS AND EMMA LOWE. BORN AT NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND.
IV. A. 18. PLATT EDWARD CUTHBERT 38 07/11/1917 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF MARGARET SANDERS PLATT, OF HOTEL ST. GEORGE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA, AND THE LATE EDWARD CUTHBERT PLATT.

The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck. Almost all of the burials are from the autumn of 1917.

POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY

I. C. 34. ALBRIGHT 06/11/1917 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841198’

ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

P. III. L. 6A. SOSNOWCHIK 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054810’

TYNE COT CEMETERY

XVI. H. 7. BARTLETT JAMES BERTRAM 29 06/11/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415363’ SON OF HENRY AND CATHERINE BARTLETT, OF 208, VICTORIA RD., SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA. BORN AT INGONISH, NOVA SCOTIA.
XXXIII. E. 23. CAIRNS JOHN ARTHUR 21 05/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841409’ SON OF ALBERT E. CAIRNS, OF GLENELM, ELGIN CO., P.Q., CANADA.
XX. A. 3. CROZIER ANDREW 24 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841413’ SON OF ANDREW AND ELIZABETH GRACIE CROZIER. NATIVE OF AUCHINLECK, AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
I. D. 11. FINNEY WILFRED JOHN 21 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry “C” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘412107’ SON OF JOHN AND ANNIE AMELIA FINNEY, OF 3, CITY VIEW TERRACE, BUSH WALK, ST. JOHN’S, WORCESTER, ENGLAND.
II. CC. 2. GILKER JAMES CLIFFORD 21 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054759’ SON OF ELSIE B. GILKER (NEE GRINTON), OF 465, DUNDAS ST., WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO, AND THE LATE JAMES MCINTYRE GILKER.
XXVII. G. 12. GILSON 06/11/1917 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141196’
XL. C. 21. O’BRIEN 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘672845’
I. C. 9. SMITH 05/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘187710’
XXVII. H. 9. St. JOHN CHRISTOPHER 32 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488181’ SON OF THOMAS AND MARY ST. JOHN, OF NEW ABERDEEN, CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA.
XL. C. 22. THOMPSON 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742784’
XXVII. D. 11. TURNER 18 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054620’ SON OF GEORGE AND ROSE TURNER, OF CHAPLEAU, ONTARIO.
I. D. 7. WILSON 22 06/11/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1057419’ SON OF HENRY AND MARY WILSON, OF IFIELD RD., SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON, ENGLAND.

VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

IX. C. 21. LEWIS FRANK SOLOMON 29 09/11/1917 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65561’ SON OF ROBERT AND EMMA LEWIS, OF SOUTH CREAKE, FAKENHAM, NORFOLK.

December 1917

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXXI. D. 29. DUNN JOHN 21 14/12/1917 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454651’ SON OF RICHARD AND CHARLOTTE VANSTONE DUNN, OF PAIGNTON, ENGLAND.

1918

January 1918

ANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH CEMETERY

III. A. 11. LONGHURST CECIL FRANK 20 23/01/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65579’ ANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF HARRY AND MARGARET LONGHURST, OF 36, ALBERT RD., EPSOM, SURREY, ENGLAND.

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI

V. K. 18. MITCHELL 23/01/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘187636’

February 1918

AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. B. 3. SPRAY 25 22/02/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748624’

ANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. A. 7. CALDERLEY EDWARD 27 05/02/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141403’
IV. A. 1. COAKLEY MAURICE EUGENE 30 03/02/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415548’

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

The extension begun by French troops in October 1914 and when they moved south in March 1916 to be replaced by Commonwealth forces, it was used for burials by the 6th Casualty Clearing Station.

III. E. 41. FIRTH 30 M M 25/02/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842282’ (SERVED AS DEPLEDGE). SON OF AMOS AND LOUISA FIRTH, OF 106, PARK ST., WOMBWELL, NR. BARNSLEY, ENGLAND.

In November 1917, Barlin began to be shelled and the hospital was moved back to Ruitz, but the extension was used again in March and April 1918 during the German advance on this front.

LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST

II. G. 2. WRIGHT 03/02/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘294647’
II. G. 1. ZIEPOWSKI 02/02/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142032’

March 1918

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. F. 64. WIGSTON 20 13/03/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455449’ SON OF MRS. ROSE HOWARD, OF WHITBY, ONTARIO.

April 1918

Forty-two men fell in April 1918.

BAGNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY, GEZAINCOURT

I. C. 5. BARCLAY 19/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘G/9425’

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE

II. C. 5. BAILLY DEBNEY BYRON 23 10/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054068’ SON OF WILLIAM J. AND AMANDA B BAILLY, OF LUNENBURG, NOVA SCOTIA.
II. C. 3. FRANKLIN CHARLES FREDERICK 22 M M 10/04/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘748566’ SON OF RICHARD HENRY AND ELIZA HANNAH FRANKLIN, OF BATTLEFORD, SASKATCHEWAN. NATIVE OF CATERHARN, SURREY, ENGLAND.
II. C. 4. HASELTON MILTON SIMON 27 10/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748651’ SON OF CHARLES E. AND LUCINDA K. HASELTON, OF BEEBE, P.Q., CANADA; HUSBAND OF RUBY P. HASELTON, OF BEEBE.
II. C. 8. JOHNSON JOHN WILLIAM 24 10/04/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054270’ SON OF CHARLES AND HELEN JOHNSON, OF 854, LORNE CRESCENT, MONTREAL.
II. C. 7. MILNE WILLIAM JAMES 43 10/04/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘696229’ SON OF JAMES AND ISABELLA MILNE, OF PARIS, ONTARIO. SERVED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. NATIVE OF YALDING, KENT, ENGLAND.
II. C. 10. SAILLANT 10/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919525’
II. C. 6. SCROGGIE WILLIAM H. 29 10/04/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748996’ BORN IN ST. FRANCIS CO., MISSOURI, U.S.A. SON OF GEORGE AND ALICE CUNNINGHAM SCROGGIE; HUSBAND OF ANNIE B. SCROGGIE, OF LYNDONVILLE, VERMONT, U.S.A.
II. C. 9. YOUNG HOWARD RAPHAEL 24 10/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘187749’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE YOUNG, OF 258, BEVERLY ST., WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1

VI. B. 3. IVERS JOHN ROBERT 33 10/04/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186160’
VI. B. 20. MEANWELL 41 12/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141248’ SON OF FREDERICK M. AND ELLEN MEANWELL. NATIVE OF HEXTHORPE, DONCASTER.
VI. B. 6. MURRAY 22 11/04/1918 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919398’ SON OF THE REV. G. H. A. AND MARGARET J. MURRAY, OF THREE RIVERS, QUEBEC.
VI. B. 23. WOOD 41 13/04/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘487481’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. W. WOOD, OF STONE, KENT, ENGLAND.

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. L. 13. ARMBURG FRANK JAMES 15/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488904’
II. L. 17. CALBECK 15/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054648’
I. L. 7. COPELAND ARTHUR WILLIAM 28 12/04/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65212’
I. L. 20. DENNIS WILLIAM HENRY 33 12/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742346’
II. K. 4. ETTINGER ELROY 21 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488290’
I. J. 13. WALSH SILAS 05/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920151’

LONDON CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-VITASSE

II. D. 20. CHURCHILL ARTHUR J. 32 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘175338’
II. B. 10. GIBBONS 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054425’
II. D. 19. GIBSON JAMES 22 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919028’
II. D. 17. HOGAN 11/04/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919356’
II. E. 10. HOWELL 11/04/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘602291’
II. D. 11. JOHNSTON ALFRED CHARLES 18 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054751’
II. B. 3. KYDD ROBERT EWART GAULDIE 37 11/04/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66255’
II. B. 2. SMITH DANIEL JOHN 25 29/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488958’
II. D. 12. SMITH 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘835471’

VIMY MEMORIAL

CANTWELL WALTER THOMAS 20 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919209’
FUDGE STANLEY JOSEPH 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘G/9408’
GUERTIN PERCY EDWARD 32 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘649389’
HOLLIDAY ROBERT EDWARD 23 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469498’
HUGHES HERBERT 24 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘648438’

LABERGE JOSEPH LEONCE 19 02/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘685085’
McKIM JAMES 02/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919529’
PLANTE LEO 22 11/04/1918 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684164’
SANDELL CHARLES 24 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748510’
STEWART 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742284’
WILLIAMS HAROLD 18 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748272’
YULL THOMAS HENRY 21 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920100’

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY

II. D. 23. PURVES 11/04/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65804’

May 1918

BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL

II. D. 22. BOUTIN ADELARD 33 25/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684363’ BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL HUSBAND OF ALICE LAVALLEE, OF BUCKLAND, BELLECHASSE, P.Q., CANADA.

BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE

II. M. 1. DUFFY 28/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920037’

DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.2

I. B. 26. PLANTE LOUIS RENE HECTOR 21 22/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684127’ DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.2 SON OF C. H. PLANTE, M.D., OF DISRAELI, P.Q., CANADA.

HUBY-ST. LEU BRITISH CEMETERY

In 1916 Hesdin became General Headquarters (2nd Echelon); the 47th Casualty Clearing Station placed near the town in July-November, 1916, and the 59th in April, 1917-August, 1918. The British burials found in this cemetery carried out mainly by two hospitals, by G.H.Q. Troops, or by units posted in the neighbourhood.

A. 11. RIDGE 12/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141336’

The cemetery begun in April, 1918 and used until March, 1919.

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY

II. F. 20. BRADEN 27/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘700965’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
II. F. 19. CARTER ROLAND 36 27/05/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454543’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF ROBERT AND ISABELLA CARTER, OF LAKEFIELD, ONTARIO.
II. F. 17. DOYLE 31 27/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054723’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF JOHN AND JOSEPHINE DOYLE. NATIVE OF PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
II. F. 18. FERGUSON GORDON HENRY 32 27/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919568’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF WILLIAM B. AND MARGARET A. FERGUSON; HUSBAND OF IDA FERGUSON, OF 47, ST. JOSEPH BOULEVARD WEST, MONTREAL. NATIVE OF MONTREAL.
II. G. 8. GRIFFITH 27/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919038’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF MARY GRIFFITH, OF SOLDIERS’ WIVES LEAGUE, HOME NO. 3, 893, ST. CATHERINE ST. WEST, MONTREAL.
II. F. 13. McINTYRE FRANK 22 26/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919156’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF MR. AND MRS. MCINTYRE, OF 203, GUY ST., MONTREAL.
II. F. 24. OWEN WILLIAM GRIFFITH 24 28/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65757’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF ELIZABETH OWEN, OF 2, WATLING ST., LLANRWST, DENBIGHSHIRE, N. WALES, AND THE LATE SHADRACH OWEN; HUSBAND OF MARIE ROBERTS OWEN, OF 9, JONES ST., BLAENAU-FESTINIOG, WALES.
II. F. 21. WELLINGTON THOMAS JOHN 34 27/05/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘180690’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY SON OF ELIZABETH WELLINGTON, OF 617, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE, CARDIFF, AND THE LATE GEORGE WELLINGTON. BORN AT LEE, DEVON, ENGLAND.

June 1918

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY

II. H. 11. BRISSON 09/06/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748337’ WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY

July 1918

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

IV. F. 8. HENDERSON JOHN WILLIAM 19 14/07/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘624091’ SON OF THOMAS AND MARGARET HENDERSON, OF 6618 105TH ST., SOUTH EDMONDTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. NATIVE OF WOLSINGHAM, CO. DURHAM, ENGLAND.

ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY EXTENSION, FREVENT

J. 8. ROYER ADELARD 21 01/07/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684241’ ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY EXTENSION, FREVENT SON OF MR. A. ROYER AND ALICE ROYER, OF WINDSOR MILLS, P.Q., CANADA. BORN AT CARRIER, P.Q.

August 1918

One hundred forty three men fell in August 1918. A rather low number, 14 named on VIMY MEMORIAL.

VIMY MEMORIAL

BIRON JOSEPH 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3155152’
BOSSE HENRI 23 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684083’
CAPPIELLO JOHN CARLO 25 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081270’
DODD WILLIAM 33 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081280’
DOYLE ARTHUR CORNELIUS 24 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘889260’
DUPUIS ERNEST 07/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘857190’

HODGIN BERTIE 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920016’
JOHNSON CHESTER ODELL 23 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742083’
KIRK ARTHUR HAROLD 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘602510’
McCANN CLARKE WALLACE 08/08/1918 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘142363’
McGILLAWAY JAMES 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080474’
PARKES ARTHUR AUSTEN 21 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488269’
ROBINSON CHESTER 31 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘421’
SAVOIE GEDEON 07/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684075’

ADELAIDE CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX

I. F. 5. BLANCHETTE GUY 25 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3155395’ ADELAIDE CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX SON OF FRANK BLANCHETTE, OF HUNTINGDON, P.Q., CANADA.

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

IV. G. 28. BOSSE JOSEPH ALBERT 29/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2320305’ AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION France
IV. D. 56. WALTER MICHEL 29 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry “C” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘3080479’ BROTHER OF MISS KATHERINE WALTER, OF 4055, DICKEN’S AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. France

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

H. 30. HAMILTON 17/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘G/9109’

Nearly half the burials in the extension are from the Canadian Corps who occupied this sector from early in 1917.

CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY

Caix occupied by Commonwealth troops in March 1917, lost during the German advance in March 1918, and recaptured on 8 August 1918 by the Canadian Corps.

I. C. 1. CARMICHAEL 13/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920040’
I. A. 14. COOK FRANK 29 08/08/1918 Corporal Canadian Infantry “D” Coy. 24th Bn. ‘701049’ CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF MR. AND MRS. COOK, OF 3, ELM PARK PARADE, CRAVEN PARK RD., STAMFORD HILL, LONDON, ENGLAND.
II. D. 17. HOCKING CHARLES CARLYON 33 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1030848’ CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY HUSBAND OF MADELINE I. HOCKING, OF 20, LANGTON RD., FALMOUTH, ENGLAND.
II. B. 18. LAWTON 45 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080356’ CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY HUSBAND OF NORA LAWTON, OF GREEN HARBOR, MASS., U.S.A.
II. D. 19. POWER EDWARD VICTOR 36 08/08/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF N. T. POWER AND ISABEL POWER, OF LA MESA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.
I. A. 1. WALKER ARTHUR LESLIE 31 D S O, M C 09/08/1918 Major Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF THE LATE ROBERT ARTHUR AND EDITH WALKER, OF SLOUGH, BUCKS, ENGLAND.
II. B. 13. WASS M M 08/08/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841953’ CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY
II. B. 17. WITHEY ALBERT NIGHTINGALE 33 D C M 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1057429’ CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY SON OF JAMES J. AND MARY J. M. WITHEY, OF 195, LOZELLS RD., HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

Called at first Caix New British Cemetery and made after the Armistice when graves (mainly of March and August 1918) were brought in from the battlefields and from the following smaller cemeteries

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

The cemetery used between April and August 1918 for burials from the 5th and 47th Casualty Clearing Stations, which had come to the village because of the German advance.

VI. C. 21. DUPUIS ARTHUR 22 14/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘660473’
V. B. 20. LEYESQUE 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘847462’

In October 1919, 42 graves brought to Crouy from the small military cemetery at Riviere, a few kilometres away to the north-west. These burials had been made from the 12th, 53rd and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations at Longpre-les-Corps Saints between May and August 1918. They now occupy rows E and F of plot IV and part of row D, plot VI.

CRUCIFIX CORNER CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX

The site became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended on 23 April in the capture of Villers-Bretonneux by German tanks and infantry. On the following day the 4th Australian and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, carried out “an enterprise of great daring”, (Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatch of 20 July 1918) and recaptured the whole of the village.

I. D. 2. CAMPBELL M M 08/08/1918 Lance Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65151’

The cemetery begun by the Canadian Corps in August 1918 and closed in the same month. The original British Cemetery (now Plot I, Rows A to D) contained 90 burials, and French troops buried in Plot II at the same time. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields between the Somme and the Luce and the following cemetery

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

LXVII. G. 35. PORTER 22 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080416’ ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY SON OF THOMAS AND ROSE PORTER, OF 14, CRANE’S COURT, WOBURN, MASS. NATIVE OF IRELAND.

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

Village of Fouquescourt captured by the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 10 August 1918.

III. E. 9. WELDING CHARLES PHILIP 39 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1031300’ HUSBAND OF ALICE WELDING, OF 194, WALKDEN RD., WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

Fouquescourt British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields in a wide area round the village and other burial grounds

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, AVERDOINGT

The cemetery was started at the beginning of April 1918 when the 7th Casualty Clearing Station came back from Tincques ahead of the German advance.

III. B. 26. GIRVAN 30/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘341570’

At the end of May the 33rd Casualty Clearing Station arrived from Aire and in August, No.1 Casualty Clearing Station from Pernes. All three stations had left Ligny-St Flochel by November 1918.

LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL

High Wood was fiercely fought over during the Battle of the Somme until cleared by 47th (London) Division on 15 September 1916. It was lost during the German advance of April 1918, but retaken the following August.

11.F.8. SEGUIN ALEXANDER 31 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1031166’ SON OF JOSEPH AND JENNIE SEGUIN.

The original London Cemetery at High Wood begun when 47 men of the 47th Division were buried in a large shell hole on 18 and 21 September 1916. Other burials were added later, mainly of officers and men of the 47th Division who died on 15 September 1916, and at the Armistice the cemetery contained 101 graves. The cemetery then greatly enlarged when remains were brought in from the surrounding battlefields, but the original battlefield cemetery is preserved intact within the larger cemetery, now known as the London Cemetery and Extension.

LONGUEAU BRITISH CEMETERY

Longueau British Cemetery was begun in April 1918, when the Allied line was re-established before Amiens; it was used by fighting units and field ambulances until the following August.

III. B. 10. SAUMURE ARMAND 21 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘661010’ (SERVED AS CHARBONNEAU), SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH SAUMURE AND HIS WIFE ELOISE LECLAIR, OF 3018, ST. HUBERT ST., MONTREAL.

Plot IV made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and smaller cemeteries.

QUEBEC CEMETERY, CHERISY

Cherisy village captured by the 18th Division on 3 May 1917, but lost the same night. It then remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918.

Casualties

B. 12. BELCOURT 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3155969’
B. 27. BLOUGH 28/08/1918 Lance Sergeant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘700897’
D. 26. BOLDUC 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3155126’
D. 15. CARMENSON 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2161146’
D. 13. CHARBONNEAU 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3156216’
C. 37. DION 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3156022’
C. 40. DUGGAN WILLIAM JOHN 39 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919089’
B. 39. FIELD 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080916’
D. 32. GEORGE JOSEPH 19 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841740’
D. 35. GOPSILL JAMES JOSEPH 21 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080085’

B. 38. HARDY LAWRENCE ALBERT 28 28/08/1918 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65415’
B. 32. HEMPSON JAMES 23 29/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054443’
D. 16. HILLANS SAMUEL 40 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919719’
B. 37. HOLLOWOOD 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘672889’
D. 8. HOULE FRANCOIS 18 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3105766’
D. 17. INGERSOLL RALPH ADRAIN 24 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742478’
B. 15. JONES 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841333’
B. 25. LACROIX 26 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3155492’
D. 12. LAMOUREUX PHILIPPE 20 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘624241’
C. 18. LIVERNOIS 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘660218’
D. 6. LOOSE 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65581’
C. 19. MARCHAND 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘856133’
B. 19. MILLER 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘742044’
B. 1. MORTIMER HAROLD 21 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841674’
C. 26.

And More

NORRIS ROBERT WILLIAM 20 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘802036’
C. 30. OGDEN CHRIS 25 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1030734’
B. 30. PAGEAU JOSEPH 24 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘4040096’
D. 18. PELLETIER FRANCOIS 20 M M 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘889973’
B. 11. ROBINSON DONALD 22 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841128’
B. 23. RYALS JOHN BRYAN 24 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054841’
C. 11. SHIPWAY JOHN CECIL 25 28/08/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
C. 43. St. PIERRE ALEXANDER 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141997’
B. 33. St. PIERRE 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘4040202’
D. 29. TAYLOR 28 27/08/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919099’
D. 7. THIBAULT 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘455484’
C. 16. TUCKER PERCIVAL GEORGE 25 M C 28/08/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
B. 29. WALKER PHILIP ILDERTON 21 M C 28/08/1918 Captain Canadian Infantry “C” Coy. 24th Bn.
D. 27. YOUNG HARLEY ERNEST 31 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841510’

Quebec Cemetery made by fighting units and those buried there, mainly men of the 22nd and 24th Battalions Canadian Infantry (both from Quebec), were killed between 26 August and 28 September 1918.

ROSIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Rosieres the scene of heavy fighting between the French Sixth Army and the German First Army at the end of August, 1914. It came within the British lines in February 1917.

With the advance to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917, Rosieres became part of the back area; but in the German offensive of March 1918, reached by the enemy on the 26th. Defended on the 27th, in the Battle of Rosieres, by the 8th Division and the 16th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery; but these troops had to be withdrawn in the night. On the 9th August, after a stubborn defence, the village retaken by the 2nd Canadian Division and Tanks.

III. D. 23. CALLAGHAN RICHARD PATRICK 24 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054453’
III. D. 19. HARSH 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘267700’
III. D. 21. KINSELLA 23 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081345’
III. A. 8. MATHER ROBERT JOHN 21 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081426’
III. D. 22. SWIFT 23 10/08/1918 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748207’
III. A. 17. TINSLEY ARTHUR 29 11/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘198768’
III. D. 24. WALLACE WILLIAM JOHN 26 10/08/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66013’
III. D. 20. WATSON JAMES 25 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66024’

The Extension made by the units which retook Rosieres. It consisted until the Armistice of four rows (Plot I, A-E) containing 97 graves. It was enlarged subsequently by the concentration of graves from the battlefields surrounding Rosieres and certain smaller cemeteries

ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

During the war, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city.

Q. IV. K. 15. BIRDSEYE 18/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘G/9295’
R. II. L. 10. MONAHAN 21/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081519’
Q. IV. F. 10. ROSS 28 11/08/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66258’

Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension, where the last burial took place in April 1920.

SUN QUARRY CEMETERY, CHERISY

Cherisy village was captured by the 18th Division on 3 May 1917, but lost the same night. It then remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918.

C. 19. ALGER 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919022’
E. 27. CAMIRE 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684134’
E. 26. DAIGLE 30 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3155673’
C. 13. FERGUSON 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘841282’
E. 25. GIRARD DONAT 31 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684316’
C. 18. HARVISON 28/08/1918 Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65429’
E. 24. LAMONTAGNE 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684262’
B. 30. McDOWELL JOHN 27 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171250’
C. 15. McGIFFIN GEORGE ALLAN 36 27/08/1918 Captain Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
E. 21. NAIRN 33 27/08/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘700587’
B. 24. SANBORN OSCAR JULIUS 18 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080139’

The cemetery takes its name from a flint quarry, known to the army as Sun Quarry. It was made by fighting units, and most of those buried in the cemetery were killed between 26 August and 28 September 1918.

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

The first rest camps for Commonwealth forces were established near Terlincthun in August 1914 and during the whole of the war, Boulogne and Wimereux housed numerous hospitals and other medical establishments.

III. A. 3. GOUDRAU 30/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3031178’
II. F. 43. McMORRAN 30/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2075502’

The cemetery at Terlincthun begun in June 1918 when the space available for service burials in the civil cemeteries of Boulogne and Wimereux was exhausted. It was used chiefly for burials from the base hospitals, but Plot IV Row C contains the graves of 46 RAF personnel killed at Marquise in September 1918 in a bombing raid by German aircraft.

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY

Villers-Bretonneux became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended in the capture of the village by their tanks and infantry on 23 April. On the following day, the 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, recaptured the whole of the village and on 8 August 1918, the 2nd and 5th Australian Divisions advanced from its eastern outskirts in the Battle of Amiens.

Casualties

XVI. C. 3. BACON 20 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454138’
VIA. C. 17. DUMARESQ AMEDIE 22 16/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘4035191’
XVI. F. 6. FOURNIER 18 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684180’
XVI. F. 5. HINGSTON REGINALD BASIL 33 08/08/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
XVI. D. 5. JONES 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919359’
XVI. C. 10. KAVANAGH M C 08/08/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
III. AA. 1. McCAUL 12/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684463’
XVI. B. 10. McRAE 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘469405’
XVI. F. 3. PRICE LIONEL GLEN 19 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748039’
XVI. E. 9. ROY 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘660876’
III. BB. 3. THOMAS 10/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘415411’
XVI. E. 7. WALDRON 08/08/1918 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘66222’

History

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields. Plots I to XX were completed by 1920 and contain mostly Australian graves, almost all from the period March to August 1918. Plots IIIA, VIA, XIIIA and XVIA, and Rows in other Plots lettered AA, were completed by 1925, and contain a much larger proportion of unidentified graves brought from a wider area. Later still, 444 graves were brought in from Dury Hospital Military Cemetery.

VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Vrely captured by the 2nd Canadian Division on 9 August 1918.

B. 12. HORSLEY 09/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘186586’
A. 9. McPHERSON M M 09/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘141506’

The communal cemetery extension was made by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer after the capture of the village.

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

Wancourt 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.

Casualties

II. A. 4. BOOTH 20 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘842071’
II. C. 15. BROCHU JOSEPH 27 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘4040076’
II. A. 12. BROWN 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080650’
VI. B. 5. CARTER 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054088’
VI. C. 27. COLLINS JAMES 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919151’
II. C. 7. GAGNON WILLIAM GEORGE 35 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘4040368’
II. C. 14. GERVAIS 28 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3156950’
II. A. 9. GODSOE 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘488359’
III. A. 21. GREGOIRE ARTHUR 29 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘684484’
III. B. 1. HENNESSY M M 27/08/1918 Regimental Sergeant Major Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘65440’
VI. C. 15. JOHNSTON 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘838309’
II. A. 5. KANE PATRICK JOSEPH VALENTINE 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081624’
II. C. 22. LEPINE 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3156157’
II. C. 17. LESSARD 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2134905’
VI. C. 26. MacDOUGALL JOHN A. 21 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘920108’
III. B. 10. O’NEIL 34 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080100’

II. C. 21. PERRIN 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748939’
III. B. 9. ROWE 28/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054846’
II. C. 18. SILVESTER ARTHUR LUCAS 29 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘748554’
VI. B. 6. STEWART LAWRENCE DOUGLAS 18 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1030184’
II. A. 7. TAUNTON CHARLES HENRY 27 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘83054’
II. A. 16. TREADWELL ALBERT EDWARD 25 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054754’
II. C. 8. TUNLEY HAROLD 37 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080111’
II. A. 20. TURNER 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749319’
II. A. 21. VALOIS JEAN BAPTISTE 22 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1105103’
II. A. 10. VIENS 27/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘856788’

At the Armistice, the cemetery contained 410 graves, but was very greatly increased in the following years when graves were brought in from the following small cemeteries and isolated positions on the battlefields south-east of Arras

WOOD CEMETERY, MARCELCAVE

Marcelcave was captured by the Canadian Corps on 8 August 1918.

B. 5. ANTHONY 27 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2075662’
B. 6. DRUMMOND KEVIN STEWART 28 M C 08/08/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn.
B. 4. HUNT 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘454201’
B. 1. McLOUGHLIN CHARLES 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘4110’
A. 28. PORTEOUS 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054560’
A. 22. TOVEY 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2005382’
B. 3. WHITE CLARENCE JOSEPH 23 08/08/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘506518’

Wood Cemetery made by the Canadian Corps later that month.

Lt. Colonel Clark-Kennedy VC

Lieutenant-Colonel Clark-Kennedy VC, OC, 24th Battalion. Lt. Colonel Clark-Kennedy awarded the Victoria Cross during the Battle of Arras on August 27-28, 1918, when he personally led his battalion forward, and coordinated the movements of nearby units, to allow the entire brigade to resume the advance after machine gun positions had stopped it. He continued to direct the advance even though wounded through the next day.

Lieutenant-Colonel Clark-Kennedy VC, OC, 24th Battalion. Lt. Colonel Clark-Kennedy won the Victoria Cross during the Battle of Arras on August 27-28, 1918, when he personally led his battalion forward, and coordinated the movements of nearby units, to allow the entire brigade to resume the advance after machine gun positions had stopped it. He continued to direct the advance even though wounded through the next day. MIKAN No. 3214054

Captain Philip Ilderton Walker MC, 24th Battalion killed-in-action 28-8-18. OLSTER and UNION TRENCH (QUEBEC CEMETERY). Son of Ernest Abney Walker and Florence Annie Walker, of The Manor House, Alnmouth, England. Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Educated at Montreal, Canada.

September 1918

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

IV. E. 1. RILEY CHARLES EDWARD 28 01/09/1918 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry “B” Coy. 24th Bn.

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

The cemetery used between April and August 1918 for burials from the 5th and 47th Casualty Clearing Stations, which had come to the village because of the German advance.

IV. E. 11. McALLISTER DAVID DUNN 39 05/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1018664’

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, AVERDOINGT

The cemetery started at the beginning of April 1918 when the 7th Casualty Clearing Station came back from Tincques ahead of the German advance.

III. F. 33. DOYLE M M 03/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘121635’

LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, AVERDOINGT
25 April 2015, cefrg.ca

At the end of May the 33rd Casualty Clearing Station arrived from Aire and in August, No.1 Casualty Clearing Station from Pernes. All three stations had left Ligny-St Flochel by November 1918.

MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT

VIII. G. 12B. LIDDLE ALFRED 39 16/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3081173’ SON OF JAMES AND CATHERINE LIDDLE, OF KIRKWALL, ORKNEY, SCOTLAND.
VII. F. 11A. STRACHAN WILLIAM 27 M M 07/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘171212’ MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT SON OF ROBERT AND CLARA STRACHAN, OF TORONTO.

QUEANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION

Queant close behind the Hindenburg Line, at the South end of a minor defence system known as the Drocourt-Queant Line, and it was not captured by British troops until the 2nd September 1918.

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT (BOX 861-4034-12LB-57C-1918) Plotting reference: 57C D 1 2 7 8. Key feature: Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205377602

B. 16. KRAMER 24 22/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3314342’
B. 9. RAINVILLE JEAN BAPTISTE URGEL 29 21/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3031217’ QUEANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION

On the North side of the Communal Cemetery a German Extension of nearly 600 graves (1916-1918), now removed; and the British Extension made by fighting units, on the far side of the German Extension, in September and October 1918.

QUEANT ROAD CEMETERY, BUISSY

Buissy reached by the Third Army on 2 September 1918, after the storming of the Drocourt-Queant line, and it was evacuated by the Germans on the following day.

VII. E. 16. PHILLIPS JOSEPH REGINALD 23 25/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘700548’

Queant Cemetery made by the 2nd and 57th Casualty Clearing Stations in October and November 1918. It then consisted of 71 graves (now Plot I, Rows A and B), but was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when 2200 graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1917-1918 between Arras and Bapaume, and from the following smaller burial grounds in the area

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

III. B. 34. DALTON 05/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘889089’
III. C 12. MANSEAU 06/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3156297’ TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
III. A. 7. THAYER CHARLES ORRIN 26 01/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘749145’ TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

VIMY MEMORIAL

CHAPMAN JACK 21 22/09/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3080879’ SON OF MR. AND MRS. HARRY CHAPMAN, OF 82, GRAND TRUNK ST., MONTREAL.

November 1918

NIVELLES (NIJVEL) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Nivelles Communal Cemetery contains 24 Commonwealth burials of the war, all them dating from the months after the Armistice. There are also three burials from the Second World War.

8 ALLARDYCE 34 27/11/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054082’ SON OF WILLIMENA ALLARDYCE, OF SCOTLAND, HUSBAND OF ANNIE ALLARDYCE, OF 616B, PARTHENAIS ST., MONTREAL, CANADA.

DOUR COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Dour Communal Cemetery contains 14 Commonwealth burials of the war, all dating from November 1918.

On North-West side of cross-path. LEA 22 07/11/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3082462’ SON OF THOMAS WILLIAM AND ALICE MAUD LEA, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
On North-West side of cross-path. LEMEIRE 07/11/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3082431’

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

L. C. 21. LINGARD JOHN JOSEPH 31 16/11/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘3082233’ HUSBAND OF MRS. MARY LINGARD, OF HARTFORD, VERMONT, U.S.A.

DENAIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Denain a German hospital centre during the greater part of the War; and from the 1st November, 1918, to the 12th March, 1919, the 33rd Casualty Clearing Station was posted in the town.

B. 30. MAINLAND THOMAS GAVIN 25 15/11/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘700356’ SON OF PETER AND CHRISTINA MAINLAND, OF 932, NORTH DRIVE, FORT GARRY, MANITOBA, CANADA. BORN IN SCOTLAND.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
CWGC DENAIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
27 April 2015, cefrg.ca

The Communal Cemetery, used by the Germans to bury their soldiers and (in 1917 and 1918) 153 British prisoners. A British plot was made at the South-East end, after the capture of the town; and after the Armistice the graves of the prisoners and other British graves were regrouped beside it.

AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

The village occupied by Commonwealth troops in October 1918. The cemetery begun at the end of that month and used until February 1919 while the 6th, 23rd and 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations were in the neighbourhood. These original graves are in Plot I, but the cemetery enlarged after the Armistice when graves (mainly of 1918-19, but also of August 1914) brought in from the surrounding battlefields and from the following smaller burial grounds.

I. C. 5. McLACHLAN SIDNEY JAMES 29 M M 08/11/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919867’ SON OF JAMES AND EMMA MCLACHLAN, OF “SIDNEYDALE,” NEVENDEN RD., VANGE, PITSEA, ENGLAND.

AUBERCHICOURT CHURCHYARD, in which one Canadian soldier was buried in October 1918.

December 1918

CHARLEROI COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Charleroi the scene of fighting between 21 and 24 August 1914 and for the rest of the war a German military and administrative centre.

P. 2. LAING JOHN DANIEL 19 20/12/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘654353’
P. 9. LAW RICHARD 15/12/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘2591303’ CHARLEROI COMMUNAL CEMETERY

The 270 Commonwealth servicemen buried in the communal cemetery either died as prisoners of war, or after the Armistice.

BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY

The cemetery created to receive the remains of British and Commonwealth casualties brought in from more than sixty small burial grounds and from isolated sites all over Yugoslavia. The largest number from any one place came from Milna Military Cemetery and the Royal Naval and Harbour Cemeteries on the island of Vis (Lissa) which was our base.

III. D. 7. LUKER ARTHUR 27 01/12/1918 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘1054006’

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY
3 May 2019, cefrg.ca

The burials in the War Cemetery include escaped prisoners of war from Italy and Greece. The civilians buried here include a mining technician, a teacher of English, a newpaper correspondent, a member of the Embassy staff and the child of another member of Embassy staff. They were buried or re-buried in the cemetery by permission of the Army Graves Service.

1919

April 1919

VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Valenciennes remained in German hands from the early days of the war until 1-2 November 1918, when entered and cleared by the Canadian Corps; 5,000 civilians found in the town. In November and December 1918, the 2nd, 57th, 4th Canadian and 32nd Casualty Clearing Stations posted at Valenciennes and the last of them did not leave until October 1919.

II. C. 29. McLEAN ROBERT JOHN 44 04/04/1919 Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. SON OF JOHN AND JANE MCLEAN, OF DRAPERSTOWN, CO. LONDONDERRY, IRELAND.

24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
21 April 2016, cefrg.ca

The Communal Cemetery of St. Roch used by the Germans in August and September 1914 and an extension then made on the south-east side. The Commonwealth plots made adjoining the German: I and II contain the graves of October 1918 to December 1919; III, IV, V and part of VI contain the graves of 348 soldiers buried originally in the German Extension and 226 whose bodies brought from other cemeteries or from the battlefields. The German Extension since removed and the Commonwealth plots within the enlarged Communal Cemetery.

STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE

Le Havre one of the ports at which the British Expeditionary Force disembarked in August 1914. Except for a short interval during the German advance in 1914, it remained No.1 Base throughout the war and by the end of May 1917, it contained three general and two stationary hospitals, and four convalescent depots.

Div. 64. VIII. E. 6. WALL EDWARD JOSEPH 08/04/1919 Private Canadian Infantry 24th Bn. ‘919053’

The first Commonwealth burials took place in Division 14 of Ste Marie Cemetery in mid August 1914. Burials in Divisions 19, 3, 62 and 64 followed successively.

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24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) in the Great War

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September 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

October 1915

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BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

November 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

December 1915

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

1916

January 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

February 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

March 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

April 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

ELZENWALLE BRASSERIE CEMETERY

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

The Hill Brothers

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

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May 1916

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL May 1916

Casualties

June 1916

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)

ZILLEBEKE CHURCHYARD

ZANTVOORDE BRITISH CEMETERY

NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY

SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

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July 1916

LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Casualties

LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY

BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION

AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY EXTENSION, FREVENT

AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

August 1916

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

VIMY MEMORIAL

September 1916

ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY