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BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION 
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​Pas De Calais

​France


​Location Information

Bruay is a large village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 6 kilometres south-west of Bethune and 26 kilometres north-west of Arras. 

Leave Bruay on the N.41 (Bethune/St Pol road). Turn right where signposts indicate Lens/Calonne-Riquart. After 400 metres turn right again, sign Cimetiere Ouest. Continue up the hill past the minor memorial. The cemetery is found after one kilometre on the right hand side. The Commonwealth plot is in the far right hand corner. 


GPS CO-Ordinates:
Longitude: 2.52744
Latitude: 50.48794
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Historical Information

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

There are now 412 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the extension. The Commonwealth plots, which were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and W. C. Von Berg also contain some French and German war graves.

Casualty Details: UK 126, Canada 276, South Africa 1, India 9, Germany 26, Total Burials: 438
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460667 Private
John Henry Anderson
44th Bn. Canadian Infantry​
3rd April 1917
Row D. 16.

Son of Mary Jane Anderson. Native of Tring, Hertfordshire, England.


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148677 Private
John Blyth
"D" Coy. 78th Bn. Canadian Infantry
29th January 1917, aged 54.
Row C. 6.

Husband of Margaret W. Blyth, of 552, Ross Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada.


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253063 Private
William Cassie
28th Bn. Canadian Infantry
10th April 1917, aged 20.
Row E. 12.

Son of John and Mary Cassie, of Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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639824 Private
James William Edgers
2nd Bn. Canadian Infantry
14th September 1917, aged 25.
Row K. 16.

Son of Eugene and Delilah Edgers, of Lyndhurst.


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Lieutenant
Hugh Mariner Teed
2nd Bn. Canadian Infantry
7th January 1917, aged 24.
Row B. 34.

Son of Mariner George and Madge Teed, of Dorchester, New Brunswick; husband of Violet M. Teed, of Salisbury, England.


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A soldier of the 15th Battalion, London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles) with French children in Bruay-en-Artois, 11th June 1916. © IWM (Q 640)

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