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GOUROCK TRENCH CEMETERY

Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines 
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​Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.29045, Longitude: 2.80911

Gourock Trench

Location Information

Tilloy-les-Mofflaines is a village some 3 kilometres south-east of Arras and a little south of the main road from Arras to Cambrai (D60). However, Gourock Trench Cemetery is situated off a by-road from Tilloy to Blangy; 2 kilometres north of Tilloy, 1 kilometre south of Blangy and 128 metres east of this by-road.


Historical Information

Gourock Trench Cemetery was made by units of the 15th (Scottish) and 37th Divisions in April 1917 but a few further burials were added in March and August 1918.

The cemetery contains 44 burials of the First World War, four of which are unidentified.

​The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw

Gourock: Scottish Gaelic: Guireag, a pimple-shaped or rounded hill, pronounced goor-uck is a town falling within the Inverclyde council area and formerly forming a burgh of the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It has in the past functioned as a seaside resort on the Firth of Clyde. Its principal function today, however, is as a popular residential area, extending contiguously from Greenock, with a railway terminus and ferry services across the Clyde.

Total Burials: 44.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 36, Canada 4. Total 40.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 4. 
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Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem

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Lieutenant
Francis Nicholas Cluff
49th Bn. Canadian Infantry 
28th August 1918, aged 24.
Row B. 9.

Son of Noble and Margaret Knechtel Cluff, of Seaforth, Ontario.


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G/9094 Private
Alfred J. Covell
7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
9th April 1917
Row F. 7.


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Three officers of the Gordon Highlanders at the entrance of a dug-out outside Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, May 1917. © IWM (Q 5229)
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Ruined house in Tilloy-les-Mofflaines captured 9th April 1917. © IWM (Q 6176)
Gourock Trench

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