FEUCHY CHAPEL BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Wancourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It lies in the valley of the Cojeul River nearly 2 kilometres south of the main road from Arras to Cambrai. Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery is situated on the south side of this road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this site is possible, but maybe by alternative entrance.
Historical Information
Wancourt was captured on 12 April 1917 after very heavy fighting, lost in March 1918, and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26 August.
The cemetery was begun by the VI Corps Burial Officer in May 1917, used at intervals until March 1918, and again in August and September 1918. At the Armistice, it contained 249 graves, all in the present Plot I. It was then enlarged when 834 graves (mainly of April and May 1917) were brought in from the battlefields of Fampoux, Roeux, Monchy and Wancourt, and from a few smaller burial grounds, including:-
FEUCHY CHAPEL QUARRY CEMETERY, FEUCHY, about 200 metres North of "Feuchy Chapel", containing the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in April, 1917; and;-
GUILDFORD TRENCH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, between Blangy and Tilloy, containing the graves of 24 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly of the 12th Division) who fell on the 9th April, 1917.
There are now 1,103 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War in this cemetery. 578 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate six casualties buried in Feuchy Chapel Quarry Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
Casualty Details: UK 1076, Canada 26, South Africa 1, Total Burials: 1103
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and George Hartley Goldsmith
Wancourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It lies in the valley of the Cojeul River nearly 2 kilometres south of the main road from Arras to Cambrai. Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery is situated on the south side of this road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this site is possible, but maybe by alternative entrance.
Historical Information
Wancourt was captured on 12 April 1917 after very heavy fighting, lost in March 1918, and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26 August.
The cemetery was begun by the VI Corps Burial Officer in May 1917, used at intervals until March 1918, and again in August and September 1918. At the Armistice, it contained 249 graves, all in the present Plot I. It was then enlarged when 834 graves (mainly of April and May 1917) were brought in from the battlefields of Fampoux, Roeux, Monchy and Wancourt, and from a few smaller burial grounds, including:-
FEUCHY CHAPEL QUARRY CEMETERY, FEUCHY, about 200 metres North of "Feuchy Chapel", containing the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in April, 1917; and;-
GUILDFORD TRENCH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, between Blangy and Tilloy, containing the graves of 24 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly of the 12th Division) who fell on the 9th April, 1917.
There are now 1,103 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War in this cemetery. 578 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate six casualties buried in Feuchy Chapel Quarry Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
Casualty Details: UK 1076, Canada 26, South Africa 1, Total Burials: 1103
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and George Hartley Goldsmith
15889 Private
Arthur Cliffe
11th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
3rd May 1917
Plot III. D. 2.
Arthur Cliffe
11th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
3rd May 1917
Plot III. D. 2.
40943 Private
Alexander Fraser Cruickshank, M. M. Croix de Guerre (France) 7th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, attd. 46th Trench Mortar Bty. (Formerly 22209, Royal Canadian Regiment) Plot V. H. 3. Son of Henry Cruickshank and Jemima (nee Martin) Cruickshank Alex was born in Kemnay, Scotland on 7th November 1893. He lived in Sauchen and enlisted at Aberdeen. Pictures courtesy of great, great nephew Graham Cruickshank Smith. Also remembered by William Cruickshank. |
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Second Lieutenant
David Lyon Scott
4th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
9th April 1917, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 22.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Scott, of Aberdeen.
David Lyon Scott
4th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
9th April 1917, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 22.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Scott, of Aberdeen.
Troops of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in an avenue of dug-outs near Wancourt, 29 April, 1917. © IWM (Q 5272)
44645 Private
Arthur Thompson
12th Bn. Manchester Regiment
14th April 1917, aged 38.
Plot III. A. 16.
Son of Mrs. Isabella Thompson, of 58, Curzon St., Burnley.
Arthur Thompson
12th Bn. Manchester Regiment
14th April 1917, aged 38.
Plot III. A. 16.
Son of Mrs. Isabella Thompson, of 58, Curzon St., Burnley.
Lieutenant
Leonard Patrick Vernon, M. C.
10th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
18th June 1917
Plot I. G. 15.
Leonard Patrick Vernon, M. C.
10th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
18th June 1917
Plot I. G. 15.
British troops watching shell-bursts near Wancourt, SE of Arras, 21st June 1917. © IWM (Q 2552)
British officers dining in a reserve trench at Wancourt, 29 April 1917. © IWM (Q 5276)
