FAMPOUX BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
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.
Casualty Details: UK 99, South Africa 19, Total Burials:118
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
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.
Casualty Details: UK 99, South Africa 19, Total Burials:118
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
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)
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 grave carries 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 grave carries the inscription: "Love Conquers All Things, Even Death."
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)
