BUNYANS CEMETERY

Tilloy-Lès-Mofflaines 
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​Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.28324, Longitude: 2.82798

​Location Information

Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 4 kilometres south-east of Arras on the main road to Cambrai. 

The Cemetery is 1 kilometre north-east of the village and is signposted from the main road. 


Historical Information

The village of Tilloy-le​s-Mofflaines was captured on 9 April 1917 by the 3rd Division, which was followed up by the 37th.

Bunyans Cemetery (the origin of the name is not known) was begun by infantry units (Row A) after the advance in April 1917 and Rows B to E were made between April and 4 July 1917 by the 62nd and 63rd Brigades, Royal Field Artillery. 

Bunyans Cemetery contains 54 First World War burials. 

Total Burials: United Kingdom 54.

The cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
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Battle of the Scarpe. Scene at an advanced dressing station at Tilloy-les-Mofflaines with a column of horse-drawn ambulance wagons Mk VI waiting to remove casualties, April 1917. © IWM (Q 2010)

85971 Gunner
Percy Ruse Lunn
"A" Bty. 62nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
8th June 1917
Row D. 7.

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156 Sergeant
George Pace, M. M.
6th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9th April 1917.

Son of Mrs. A. Morgan, of 8, Gravel Pit, Mason Hill, Bromley, Kent.



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32742 Gunner
Clarence Smith
"C" Bty. 62nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
3rd June 1917, aged 21.
Row D. 9.

Son of Edgar and Lillie Smith, of 19 Coronation Avenue, Birstall, Leeds.

His headstone bears the inscription "R. I. P."

Picture courtesy of great niece, Helen Astley

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Three officers of the Gordon Highlanders at the entrance of a dug-out outside Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, May 1917. © IWM (Q 5229)

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