FILLIÈVRES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.31093, Longitude: 2.16593
Location Information
Fillievres is a village about 44 kilometres west of Arras and 14 kilometres south-west of St Pol. The Cemetery is about 1 kilometre south of the village, on the road (D340) to Frevent.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.
The register is available in the Mairie from Monday to Friday from 14.00 to 17.00
Historical Information
The cemetery was begun in June 1918 by the 46th Casualty Clearing station, used later by 6th Stationary Hospital, and subsequently completed by the inclusion of graves from French cemeteries and German burial grounds in the area. The cemetery was used again during the Second World War.
The cemeteries from which graves were brought into Fillievres British Cemetery were the following :-
ACHEUX-en-VIMEU CHURCHYARD, where three British soldiers were buried in 1916.
BOIRY ST. RICTRUDE CHURCHYARD, where one British officer was buried in 1916.
FOSSEUX FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, where two British soldiers were buried in 1917 and 1918.
MAIZIERES CHURCHYARD, where one British soldier was buried in 1917.
TOURS-en-VIMEU CHURCHYARD, where one British soldier was buried in 1916.
The cemetery now contains 81 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (eight of them unidentified) and 19 Second World War burials.
The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total Burials: 100.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 71, Canada 1, New Zealand 1. Total 73.
World War One Unidentified Casualties: 8.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 8, Canada 1. Total 19.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Geerhard Joos
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Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter, V. C.
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Headstone
Picture © Geerhard Joos
Captain
Laurence Henry Bloy
5th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
29th June 1916, aged 23.
Row B. 1.
Son of William Henry and Emma Bloy, of Glen Tarn, Hindley Green, Wigan.
Laurence Henry Bloy
5th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
29th June 1916, aged 23.
Row B. 1.
Son of William Henry and Emma Bloy, of Glen Tarn, Hindley Green, Wigan.
Lieutenant Colonel
Gerald Oldroyd Cornock-Taylor, C. B. E.
General List
14th February 1919, aged 34.
Row B. 32.
Son of John and Alice Cornock-Taylor, of Alvington House, Wimbledon Common, Surrey. Officer de la Croix de la Couronne (Belgium). He was Deputy Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries G.H.Q. (and Secretary to the Imperial War Graves Commission) from 13th Dec., 1917 until his death. Those under whom he served think it fitting to place on record in this book the great ability and the unstinted devotion that he gave to this duty, and the severe loss sustained by the Army and the Commission in his death.
His headstone bears the inscription "O Remember How Of Human Days He Lived The Better Part"
Gerald Oldroyd Cornock-Taylor, C. B. E.
General List
14th February 1919, aged 34.
Row B. 32.
Son of John and Alice Cornock-Taylor, of Alvington House, Wimbledon Common, Surrey. Officer de la Croix de la Couronne (Belgium). He was Deputy Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries G.H.Q. (and Secretary to the Imperial War Graves Commission) from 13th Dec., 1917 until his death. Those under whom he served think it fitting to place on record in this book the great ability and the unstinted devotion that he gave to this duty, and the severe loss sustained by the Army and the Commission in his death.
His headstone bears the inscription "O Remember How Of Human Days He Lived The Better Part"
Major
Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay
A. Q. M. G. Third Army G. H. Q. Royal Engineers, D. S. O. & Mentioned 5 times in Despatches
25th October 1918, aged 38.
Row A. 36.
Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit (France), Officer of the Order of Leopold II with Palm (Belgium), Croix De Guerre (Belgium). Son of Col. W. E. Du Boulay, R.E., and Rose Du Boulay (nee Hawkins); husband of Blanche Du Boulay (nee Hornung), of 3, West Halkin St., Belgrave Square, London.
His headstone bears the inscription "Glad Did I Live And Gladly Die And I Laid Me Down With A Will (R. L. S.)
Arthur Houssemayne Du Boulay
A. Q. M. G. Third Army G. H. Q. Royal Engineers, D. S. O. & Mentioned 5 times in Despatches
25th October 1918, aged 38.
Row A. 36.
Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit (France), Officer of the Order of Leopold II with Palm (Belgium), Croix De Guerre (Belgium). Son of Col. W. E. Du Boulay, R.E., and Rose Du Boulay (nee Hawkins); husband of Blanche Du Boulay (nee Hornung), of 3, West Halkin St., Belgrave Square, London.
His headstone bears the inscription "Glad Did I Live And Gladly Die And I Laid Me Down With A Will (R. L. S.)
Captain
Kenneth Carlyle Gill, M. C. & Mentioned in Despatches
22nd Squadron, Royal Air Force and 1st Bn. Cambridgeshire Regiment
22nd October 1918, aged 28.
Row A. 32.
Son of the Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Gill, of the Vicarage, West Wittering, Sussex; husband of L. G. Gill, of Mickleham Downs, Dorking, Surrey.
His headstone bears the inscription "And If We Fall We Fall For Thee Glad To Die If Thou Art Free England"
Kenneth Carlyle Gill, M. C. & Mentioned in Despatches
22nd Squadron, Royal Air Force and 1st Bn. Cambridgeshire Regiment
22nd October 1918, aged 28.
Row A. 32.
Son of the Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Gill, of the Vicarage, West Wittering, Sussex; husband of L. G. Gill, of Mickleham Downs, Dorking, Surrey.
His headstone bears the inscription "And If We Fall We Fall For Thee Glad To Die If Thou Art Free England"
Lieutenant
Stanley Nixon
11th Bn. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) and attached to 55th Squadron, Royal Air Force
1st January 1919, aged 26.
Row B. 30.
Son of the late James Nixon, J.P., of Belfast.
His headstone bears the inscription "He Shall Not Grow Old As We That Are Left Grow Old"
Stanley Nixon
11th Bn. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) and attached to 55th Squadron, Royal Air Force
1st January 1919, aged 26.
Row B. 30.
Son of the late James Nixon, J.P., of Belfast.
His headstone bears the inscription "He Shall Not Grow Old As We That Are Left Grow Old"
Lieutenant
Geoffrey Joseph Lightbourne Welsford
15th Sqdn. Royal Flying Corps and 3rd Bn. Middlesex Regiment
30th March 1916, aged 20.
Row A. 5.
Only son of Mildred L. Freeborn, widow of the late J. W. W. Welsford, M.A., and wife of E. W. Freeborn, M.A., of Bradbys, Harrow-on-the-Hill.
His headstone carries the inscription; "Only son of the late J. W. W. Welsford & Mrs E. W. Freeborn."
Geoffrey Joseph Lightbourne Welsford
15th Sqdn. Royal Flying Corps and 3rd Bn. Middlesex Regiment
30th March 1916, aged 20.
Row A. 5.
Only son of Mildred L. Freeborn, widow of the late J. W. W. Welsford, M.A., and wife of E. W. Freeborn, M.A., of Bradbys, Harrow-on-the-Hill.
His headstone carries the inscription; "Only son of the late J. W. W. Welsford & Mrs E. W. Freeborn."
Lieutenant
Malcolm Henry Young
5th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
29th June 1916
Row A. 1.
Malcolm Henry Young
5th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
29th June 1916
Row A. 1.
Wounded British troops wearing German helmets outside a Casualty Clearing Station at Heilly, September 1916. © IWM (Q 1256)
Wounded British troops arriving at 43 Casualty Clearing Station, Frevent, 8 April 1918. © IWM (Q 334)
World War Two Roll of Honour
J/18235 Flying Officer
Robert Bruce Melville
166 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
31st August 1944, aged 28.
Plot I. D. 1.
Son of Charles A. and Winnifred H. Melville, of Midland, Ontario, Canada.
Robert Bruce Melville
166 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
31st August 1944, aged 28.
Plot I. D. 1.
Son of Charles A. and Winnifred H. Melville, of Midland, Ontario, Canada.
1913809 Sapper
Kenneth Stevens
684 General Construction Company, Royal Engineers
10th May 1940, aged 22.
Plot I. C. 14.
Kenneth Stevens
684 General Construction Company, Royal Engineers
10th May 1940, aged 22.
Plot I. C. 14.
