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DURY CRUCIFIX CEMETERY 
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Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.24452, Longitude: 3.00557

Dury Crucifix Cemetery
© Werner Van Caneghem

​Location Information

Dury is a village about 17 kilometres east-south-east of Arras. Travelling from Arras Centre, take the N39 Arras-Cambrai road for approximately 16.5 kilometres, where you turn left along D956. On this road take the first right fork of the Y Junction at 900 metres. Take the first right at 650 metres. The cemetery lies on the left side of this road 100 metres from the junction.


Historical Information

The cemetery was begun by Canadian units (mainly the 46th and 47th Battalions) immediately after the capture of the village, and it contained at the Armistice 72 graves (now in Plot I, Rows A and B). It was then enlarged by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of April and May, 1917, and March, August and September, 1918, North and West of Dury, plus the following cemetery:-

ESSEX CEMETERY, ETERPIGNY, was on the South side of the village of Eterpigny and contained the graves of 33 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in September, 1918, 19 of whom belonged to the 2nd Essex, and ten to the 2nd Seaforths.


Total Burials: 2,058

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 170, Canada 122. Total 292.

Unidentified Casualties: 1,766.


This cemetery was designed by G H Goldsmith.
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Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

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Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. Dead German soldiers in sunken road that was strongly held by machine guns but was taken by the 4th Division. Near Dury, 2 September 1918. © IWM (Q 7030)
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203050 Private
T. Dunnell
1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
23rd April 1917, aged 19.
Plot II. D. 26.

Son of Thomas and Esther Dunnell, of Ivy Bungalow, Brookbank Avenue, Redcar, Yorks.

His headstone bears the inscription; "His Duty Done."

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G/18822 Private
George Edward Garley
6th Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
3rd May 1917, aged 36.
Plot VI. A. 23.

Son of George and Betsy Garley, of Hinxworth; husband of Edith Garley, of Hinxworth, Baldock, Herts.


His headstone bears the inscription; 
"In Fond Memory. Until The Day Breaks And The Shadows Flee Away."

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895251 Private
John Blair McCallum
50th Bn. Canadian Infantry
3rd September 1918, aged 28.
Plot I. A. 60.

Son of John Blair McCallum and Jane McCallum; husband of Florence Mary McCallum, of 161c, Robertson St., Victoria, British Columbia.

His headstone bears the inscription; "He Laid His Richest Gift On The Altar Of Duty, His Life."
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476023 Staff Sergeant
John Singleton
Canadian Ordnance Corps
2nd September 1918, aged 30.
Plot H. D. 32.

Only son of the late Wilson and Mary Singleton, of Leeds, England.


Images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem

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Section of panorama. Western Front. Showing the Road Dury to Hendecourt. © IWM (Q 15025)
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Men of the 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers man a French 25mm 34SA anti-tank gun at Dury, 14 January 1940. © IWM (F 2149)
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Battle of Arras. German anti-aircraft machine gun in action. Dury, April / May 1917. © IWM Q 42432
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Dury Mill British Cemetery
Vis-en-Artois Memorial
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