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CANADA CEMETERY

​Tilloy-Lez-Cambrai 
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Nord

​France


Location Information

Tilloy-lez-Cambrai is a village on the north-western outskirts of the town of Cambrai and a little east of the road to Douai.

Follow the N30 (Cambrai Ring Road) from Cambrai to its junction with the Tilloy-lez-Cambrai road, the D49, just after the junction of the N30 and the N43 (Douai road). Follow the D49 for approximately 2.2 kilometres, crossing the bridge over the motorway, to a side road on the west-south-west (left) side. The Cemetery lies 200 metres away at the end of the side road.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty.

GPS CO-Ordinates
Longitude: 3.22143
Latitude: 50.20433

Historical Information

The village of Tilloy was captured by the Canadian Corps at the beginning of October 1918 in the face of strong opposition, and the cemetery was made by their burial officer on 13 October.

Canada Cemetery contains 265 First World war burials, 24 of them unidentified. Most of the burials are Canadian. Also buried in the cemetery are eight airmen of the Second World War.


Total Burials: 273.

World War One Identified Casualties: Canada 235, United Kingdom 6. Total 241.

World War Two Identified Casualties: Canada 6, United Kingdom 2. Total 8.


The cemetery was designed by Charles Holden and William Harrison Cowlishaw


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2476545 Private
Arthur Harry Akers
52nd Bn. Canadian Infantry
28th September 1918, aged 32.
Plot II. C. 36.

Son of Jane Akers, of Smethwick, Staffs, England.


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669746 Private
Percival Brooks, M. M.
75th Bn. Canadian Infantry
30th September 1918, aged 23.
Plot II. E. 26.

Son of John T. and Isabella Brooks, of Islington, Ontario. Native of Dixie, Ontario.


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1084376 Private
William Chaboyer
52nd Bn. Canadian Infantry.
28th September 1918.
Plot I. B. 22.


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 William was born on September 4th, 1898 in St. Laurent Manitoba, youngest beloved son of Ambroise and Catherine Chaboyer, and was my grandfather Maxim’s youngest brother. They both served in World War One. William died September 28th, 1918 at the age of 22 during Canada’s Hundred Days. He was in the Cdn Infantry Reg, 52nd Batallion, Manitoba Regiment.

Picture and text courtesy of Pat Ledieu (Great Niece)



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Lieutenant
Frederick Hope Stockhausen
58th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
1st October 1918, aged 24.
Plot I. D. 3.


Born 22nd December 1892 in Jamaica, British West Indies. Son of Frederick William and Louise Stockhausen of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Only brother to seven sisters, one of whom, married Pvt. Lewis Campbell, a comrade of Fred’s from the 58th Bn. , after the war. 

Enlisted on 18th February 1916 at Toronto, Ontario, Canada with the  170th O.S. Battalion, C.E.F. Mississauga Horse. Served in France with the 58th Battalion beginning in 1916 as a Private. Was granted a  commission of Lieutenant on 2nd of May 1918 and returned to his unit on 28th of September 1918. Killed in action during the Battle of Canal du Nord.​

Picture courtesy of and remembered by Great-nephew, Kelly Lewis Campbell

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Men of the the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) salvaging German rifles near Marcoing, 22 November 1917. © IWM (Q 6312)
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Canadian troops playing with their dog mascots behind the lines. © IWM (CO 1307)

World War Two Burials

(Pictures © Johan Pauwels)

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J/22136 Flying Officer (Navigator)
Albert Glendenning
408 Sqdn. Royal Canadian Air Force
13th June 1944, aged 30.
Coll. grave. Plot 2. Row G. Grave 5-7.

Son of James Thomas Glendenning and Olive Glendenning, of Islington, Ontario.

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