FAMPOUX BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.30518, Longitude: 2.85931
Location Information
Fampoux is a town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the north bank of the Scarpe, 6 kilometres east of Arras. The Cemetery is on the south-west side of the D42 road leading north-west from Fampoux to Point-du-Jour.
Historical Information
Fampoux was taken over 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 25 March 1918 during the German advance. The town was finally cleared by the 51st (Highland) Division on 26 August 1918.
Fampoux British Cemetery (called at one time Helena Trench Cemetery) was made by units of the 4th and 34th Divisions in April-June 1917 and used again by the Guards Division in 1918. After the Armistice it was found necessary to regroup ten graves (now forming Row E) which projected into the road, and the numbering of Rows A to D is therefore irregular. The extension the Germans added to the churchyard was destroyed in the fighting of 1917 and 1918.
Fampoux British Cemetery contains 118 burials of the First World War, 8 of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 118.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 92, South Africa 18. Total 110.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 7, South Africa 1. Total 8.
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
18141 Private
John William Brown
1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
31st January 1918.
Row B. 55.
John William Brown
1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
31st January 1918.
Row B. 55.
Captain
Alexander Murray Craigmile, M. C.
6th Bn. Rifle Brigade
29th March 1918, aged 23.
Row D. 3.
Son of Dr. A. and Mrs. Craigmile, of Penygraig, Talycafn, Caernarvonshire. Native of Wallasey, Cheshire.
Alexander Murray Craigmile, M. C.
6th Bn. Rifle Brigade
29th March 1918, aged 23.
Row D. 3.
Son of Dr. A. and Mrs. Craigmile, of Penygraig, Talycafn, Caernarvonshire. Native of Wallasey, Cheshire.
Second Lieutenant
Edward Jasper Gray
6th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade
31st March 1918, aged 20.
Row E. 1.
Son of Alan and Maude Gray, of York House, Chaucer Rd., Cambridge.
His grave carries the inscription: "Lux Aeterna Luceat Ei" (May Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him)
Edward Jasper Gray
6th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade
31st March 1918, aged 20.
Row E. 1.
Son of Alan and Maude Gray, of York House, Chaucer Rd., Cambridge.
His grave carries the inscription: "Lux Aeterna Luceat Ei" (May Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him)
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34182 Private
Ernest Edwin Hoddinott
1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
9th April 1917.
Row A. 11.
Brother of Harold H. Hoddinott, of 11, Furland Rd., Milton, Weston-super-Mare.
His headstone bears the inscription "The Path Of Duty Was The Way To Glory"
Ernest Edwin Hoddinott
1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
9th April 1917.
Row A. 11.
Brother of Harold H. Hoddinott, of 11, Furland Rd., Milton, Weston-super-Mare.
His headstone bears the inscription "The Path Of Duty Was The Way To Glory"
Second Lieutenant
John Huyton
4th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), attached to 51st Trench Mortar Battery
28th May 1917, aged 21/22.
Row A. 47.
Son of Thomas and Fanny Huyton.
John attended Cheltenham Training College from 1913 – 1915, having been a pupil at Middleport Church School, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
John Huyton
4th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), attached to 51st Trench Mortar Battery
28th May 1917, aged 21/22.
Row A. 47.
Son of Thomas and Fanny Huyton.
John attended Cheltenham Training College from 1913 – 1915, having been a pupil at Middleport Church School, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Second Lieutenant
Reginald Harry Jeffrey
4th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
11th April 1917, aged 24.
Row A. 42.
Son of Mrs. Kate Dampier-Child, of 41, Lanercost Rd., Tulse Hill, London.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Love Conquers All Things, Even Death."
Reginald Harry Jeffrey
4th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
11th April 1917, aged 24.
Row A. 42.
Son of Mrs. Kate Dampier-Child, of 41, Lanercost Rd., Tulse Hill, London.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Love Conquers All Things, Even Death."
15954 Private
William Swan
2nd Bn. Essex Regiment
9th April 1917, aged 24.
Row A. 24.
Son of Charles and Mary Ann Swan, of Hempstead Rd., Radwinter, Saffron Walden.
His brother H. Swan also fell on the same day and he is buried very close by in Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery
William Swan
2nd Bn. Essex Regiment
9th April 1917, aged 24.
Row A. 24.
Son of Charles and Mary Ann Swan, of Hempstead Rd., Radwinter, Saffron Walden.
His brother H. Swan also fell on the same day and he is buried very close by in Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery
A soldier reading at the entrance to his dug-out, reinforced with sandbags. Fampoux, 21 July 1917. © IWM (Q 5702)
Battle of the Scarpe. A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux, 29 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7037)
