DOMINION CEMETERY
Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt is 16 kilometres south-east of Arras and 4 kilometres south of the Arras-Cambrai main road. Dominion Cemetery is 2.5 kilometres north-east of Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, in fields reached by a track signposted off the road (the D956) between Hendecourt and the main Arras to Cambrai road (the D939).
Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt was captured by the 57th (West Lancashire) and 52nd (Lowland) Division on the night of the 1st-2nd September, 1918. Dominion Cemetery was made by Canadian units in September, 1918, after the storming by the Canadian Corps of the Drocourt-Queant Line; Imperial Cemetery, to the West of the village, has now been removed to H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein. The grave of one Canadian airman was brought in after the Armistice from an isolated position some kilometres to the East.
Victoria Cross: Serjeant Arthur George Knight, VC, 10th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), died of wounds 03/09/1918, plot I. F. 15.
Casualty Details: UK 17, Canada 214, Total Burials: 231
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426604 Private Thomas Smith 16th Bn. (Manitoba Regiment) Canadian Infantry (Canadian Scottish). Killed in action 02/09/1918. Plot I. C. 3. Pte. Smith was a direct descendant of one Sgt. Robert Perry, late of Major Jessup's Rangers as a United Empire Loyalist during the American War of Independence. He is therefore entitled to the post-nominal of UE. He was killed during the Second Battle of Arras in the assault on the Drocourt-Queant Line on September 2, 1918.
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