BOOTHAM CEMETERY
Héninel
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.23814, Longitude: 2.88211
Image above © Carl Liversage @carl_liversage
Location Information
Héninel is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres south-east of Arras and 3 kilometres south of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai.
Bootham Cemetery is a long row of graves, nearly 2 kilometres east of Heninel on the south side of the road to Cherisy. From Heninel centre take the Rue St Germain and then a 1 kilometre track to the cemetery.
Historical Information
Héninel village was captured in a snowstorm on 12 April 1917 by the 56th (London) and 21st Division. The 50th (Northumbrian) Division, advancing from Heninel on the two following days, captured Wancourt Tower.
Bootham Cemetery was named from a trench, which in turn was named from Bootham School in Yorkshire. It was made in April 1917 by the 56th Division Burial Officer.
The cemetery contains 186 First World War burials, 71 of them unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
Total Burials: 186.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 115.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 71.
Héninel is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres south-east of Arras and 3 kilometres south of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai.
Bootham Cemetery is a long row of graves, nearly 2 kilometres east of Heninel on the south side of the road to Cherisy. From Heninel centre take the Rue St Germain and then a 1 kilometre track to the cemetery.
Historical Information
Héninel village was captured in a snowstorm on 12 April 1917 by the 56th (London) and 21st Division. The 50th (Northumbrian) Division, advancing from Heninel on the two following days, captured Wancourt Tower.
Bootham Cemetery was named from a trench, which in turn was named from Bootham School in Yorkshire. It was made in April 1917 by the 56th Division Burial Officer.
The cemetery contains 186 First World War burials, 71 of them unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
Total Burials: 186.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 115.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 71.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
551910 Rifleman
John Alfred Butcher
1st/16th Bn. London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
14th April 1917, aged 20.
Row D. 39.
Son of Mr W. Butcher, of 8, Winthorpe Rd., Putney, London.
His headstone bears the inscription "Deeply Missed But Never Forgotten"
John Alfred Butcher
1st/16th Bn. London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
14th April 1917, aged 20.
Row D. 39.
Son of Mr W. Butcher, of 8, Winthorpe Rd., Putney, London.
His headstone bears the inscription "Deeply Missed But Never Forgotten"
13044 Private
George Cartner
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
23rd April 1917.
Row D. 9.
George Cartner
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
23rd April 1917.
Row D. 9.
40262 Private
George Alexander Kenyon-Lees
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
23rd April 1917, aged 20.
Row C. 13.
Son of J. Kenyon-Lees, of Edinburgh.
George Alexander Kenyon-Lees
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
23rd April 1917, aged 20.
Row C. 13.
Son of J. Kenyon-Lees, of Edinburgh.
28740 Private
Duncan Lamont
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
23rd April 1917, aged 18.
Row E. 4.
Son of Mrs. Isabella McK. Lamont, of 43, Market St. East, Glasgow.
His headstone bears the inscription "Too Dearly Loved To Be Forgotten"
Duncan's name is also memorialised on the Kingarth War Memorial, Isle of Bute, Scotland, where he was born and raised.
Duncan Lamont
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
23rd April 1917, aged 18.
Row E. 4.
Son of Mrs. Isabella McK. Lamont, of 43, Market St. East, Glasgow.
His headstone bears the inscription "Too Dearly Loved To Be Forgotten"
Duncan's name is also memorialised on the Kingarth War Memorial, Isle of Bute, Scotland, where he was born and raised.
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Pictures courtesy of Andrew Lamont, Duncan was his father's cousin
British soldier taking up screw pickets for wiring. Heninel, 23 October 1917. © IWM (Q 6135)
