GOUROCK TRENCH CEMETERY
Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.29045, Longitude: 2.80911
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.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem
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.
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.
G/9094 Private
Alfred J. Covell
7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
9th April 1917
Row F. 7.
Alfred J. Covell
7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
9th April 1917
Row F. 7.
Three officers of the Gordon Highlanders at the entrance of a dug-out outside Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, May 1917. © IWM (Q 5229)
Ruined house in Tilloy-les-Mofflaines captured 9th April 1917. © IWM (Q 6176)
