ETERPIGNY BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Eterpigny is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais.
From Vis-en-Artois take the D939 towards Cambrai until you come to a roundabout. Take the D956 to Dury, followed by a 2 kilometre track to the cemetery.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site make wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
Eterpigny British Cemetery was begun by the 4th and 1st Divisions and was used from the end of August 1918, to the middle of October. One grave was brought in after the Armistice.
The cemetery contains 66 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Ten of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty believed to be buried among them.
Casualty Details: UK 54, Canada 12, Total Burials: 66
The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw
Eterpigny is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais.
From Vis-en-Artois take the D939 towards Cambrai until you come to a roundabout. Take the D956 to Dury, followed by a 2 kilometre track to the cemetery.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site make wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
Eterpigny British Cemetery was begun by the 4th and 1st Divisions and was used from the end of August 1918, to the middle of October. One grave was brought in after the Armistice.
The cemetery contains 66 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Ten of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty believed to be buried among them.
Casualty Details: UK 54, Canada 12, Total Burials: 66
The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw
20th October 1918; Eterpigny, France. The camouflaged camp of the Fourth Army Headquarters. In the foreground (left) is an unidentified British soldier standing beside a motor vehicle marked M54025. Note the fire buckets in two rows on a makeshift table (foreground, far left).
Major
Roderick Ogle Bell-Irving, D. S. O., M. C.
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 27.
Row D. 4.
Son of Henry Ogle Bell-Irving and Maria Isabella del Carmen Bell-Irving of Vancouver; husband of Nora Angela Bell-Irving of Vancouver.
His headstone bears the following inscription; "Killed near Cambrai, Pro Patria Honor et Gloria."
Roderick Ogle Bell-Irving, D. S. O., M. C.
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 27.
Row D. 4.
Son of Henry Ogle Bell-Irving and Maria Isabella del Carmen Bell-Irving of Vancouver; husband of Nora Angela Bell-Irving of Vancouver.
His headstone bears the following inscription; "Killed near Cambrai, Pro Patria Honor et Gloria."
23563 Lance Corporal
George Frederick (Fred) Lessons
1st Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
7th September 1918, aged 34.
Row A. 1.
Husband of Ethel Lessons, of 30, Palin St., Hyson Green, Nottingham. Professional footballer.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved."
The inscription comes from the hymn; "O Valiant hearts," written to remember the fallen of the first world war.
Fred Lessons was a professional footballer who spent his career as a centre forward with Nottingham Forest and then Northampton Town.
George Frederick (Fred) Lessons
1st Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
7th September 1918, aged 34.
Row A. 1.
Husband of Ethel Lessons, of 30, Palin St., Hyson Green, Nottingham. Professional footballer.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved."
The inscription comes from the hymn; "O Valiant hearts," written to remember the fallen of the first world war.
Fred Lessons was a professional footballer who spent his career as a centre forward with Nottingham Forest and then Northampton Town.
Lieutenant
Stuart Robertson Widmeyer, M. M.
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 23.
Row D. 5.
Son of Eugene Widmeyer and his wife Mary Grant Shiel, of Dauphin, Manitoba.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Sleep brave heart, who for others died."
Stuart Robertson Widmeyer, M. M.
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 23.
Row D. 5.
Son of Eugene Widmeyer and his wife Mary Grant Shiel, of Dauphin, Manitoba.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Sleep brave heart, who for others died."
Ruins of the village of Eterpigny, 29 July 1917. © IWM (Q 78524)
