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ÉTERPIGNY BRITISH CEMETERY
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Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.25943, Longitude: 2.98255

Éterpigny British Cemetery
Image above © Werner Van Caneghem

​Location Information

Éterpigny 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

Éterpigny 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.

Total Burials: 66.

Commonwealth Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 44, Canada 12. Total 56.

Commonwealth Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 10.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw
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Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem

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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."

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29736 Lance Sergeant
Thomas Stroud Hutt
1st Bn. 
Somerset Light Infantry
30th August 1918, aged 40.
Row. A. 3.

Husband of Charlotte Hutt, of 8, Hollywood Terrace, Wyndham St., Plymouth.



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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.

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907750 Private
Norman Chesley Van Koughnett
5th Bn. 
Canadian Infantry
13rd October 1918, aged 21.
Row. C. 11.


Son of Levi and Martha Ann Van Koughnett, of Disley, Saskatchewan.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Memory Of Our Beloved Son And Brother Norman"





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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."

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874168 Private
Albert Edward Wilson
43rd Bn. 
Canadian Infantry
28th August 1918, aged 39.
Row A. 7. 

Son of Charles Wilson, of Rotherham, England; husband of Ethel Wilson, of 1692, St. Denis St., Montreal, Canada.



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28583 Lance Corporal
Leonard Edward Woodyatt
1st Bn. 
Hampshire Regiment
31st August 1918, aged 19.
Row B. 6.

Son of Thomas Woodyatt, of Brier Cottage, Bewdley St., Kidderminster.

His headstone bears the inscription "Gone From Us But Not Forgotten to Rest In His Father's Home Above"


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Ruins of the village of Eterpigny, 29 July 1917. © IWM (Q 78524)
Éterpigny British Cemetery
Éterpigny British Cemetery
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