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CRUMP TRENCH BRITISH CEMETERY

​Fampoux
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Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Fampoux is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 6 kilometres east of Arras on the D42 road, and a little west of the A1 road (motorway) from Lille to Senlis.  

The Cemetery is about 500 metres south-east of the village on the east side of the A1.


Visiting Information

The 150 metre long rough access track to this cemetery may be difficult in bad weather. 

Wheelchair access with some difficulty. 


Historical Information

Fampoux village was taken by the 4th Division (passing through the 9th (Scottish) Division) on 9 April 1917. It remained close behind the Allied front line, but part of it was lost on 28 March 1918 during the German advance. The village was finally cleared by the 51st (Highland) Division on 26 August 1918. 

Crump Trench British Cemetery was made by fighting units between April and August 1917. After the Armistice, 85 of the graves were found to have been destroyed.

Crump Trench British Cemetery contains 217 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 74 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 33 casualties believed to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains two German burials.

Total Burials: 217.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 141. Total 141.

Unidentified Casualties: 76. 

The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
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317056 Private
John Campbell
2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
4th May 1917, aged 26.
Plot II. C. 16.

Son of the late Murdo Campbell and of Annie Campbell, of 5, Lionel, Ness, Stornoway.


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2448 Private
William George Fall
1st Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
3rd May 1917
Plot II. B. 28.


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Second Lieutenant
Joseph F. Harte
5th Bn. Royal Scots
6th June 1917, aged 21.
Plot II. A. 9.

Son of Peter Harte, of 31, Forrest Rd., Edinburgh.


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Second Lieutenant
Frederick Laurence Hislop
6th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
23rd April 1917, aged 36.
Plot II. B. 13.

Son of George Robertson Hislop, C.E., F.C.S. (Paisley), and Margaret Dewar Findlay Hislop, of Woolwich, London. B.Sc. Joined O.T.C. Jan., 1916. Gazetted July, 1916, posted to London Scottish. Partner in R. and G. Hislop, Gas and Heating Engineers and Contractors, Paisley.

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202160 Private
Norman MacLean
1st/4th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
17th May 1917, aged 27.
Sp. Mem. A. 2.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Maclean, of Camuscoille, Achiltibuie, Ullapool, Ross-shire.


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Captain
Reginald Charles Rundell
General List, attd. 10th Trench Mortar Bty.
3rd May 1917, aged 22.
Plot II. B. 32.

Son of Joseph W. E. and Laura Janet Rundell, of 117, Manners Rd., Southsea. B.Sc.


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Second Lieutenant 
Thomas Douglas Wilson
6th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders​
23rd April 1917, aged 26.
Plot I. A. 8.

Only Son of Lady Wilson, of Airdrie House, Airdrie, Lanarkshire and Kippen House, Dunning, Perthshire, and third son of the late Sir John Wilson, Bt., husband of Kathleen Elise Knowles (formerly Wilson, nee Gray), of Kippen House, Dunning, Perthshire. On his headstone was engraved; "I thank my God on every remembrance of you."


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Battle of the Scarpe. A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux, 29 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7037)

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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