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GOUY-EN-ARTOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION 
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​Pas De Calais

​France


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Picture © Johan Pauwels

​Location Information

Gouy-en-Artois is a village 15 kilometres south-west of Arras and 2 kilometres north of the road from Arras to Doullens (N.25).

The Commonwealth war graves plot lies next to the Communal Cemetery on the south side of the village on the road to Bavincourt (V.3).


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to site is possible, but may be by alternative entrance. 


Historical Information

The extension was made in April 1917 at the time of the Allied advance from Arras. Two further burials took place in June and July 1917, and five in March 1918. 

Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension contains 44 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also four German war graves.


The cemetery is unusual in that some of the graves are marked by stones made from red Corsehill or Locharbriggs sandstone, rather than the more usual Portland stone.

Total Burials: 48.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 44, Germany 3. Total 47.

Unidentified Casualty: Germany 1. Total 1.
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The extension was designed by Charles Holden and William Harrison Cowlishaw
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
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17479 Private
Robert Lumsden
10th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
12th April 1917, aged 22.
Row A. 20.

Son of John William and Eliza Lumsden, of 66, Queen St., North Shields.


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Officers and men of the 2/4th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, 172nd Brigade Staff, 57th (West Lancashire) Division, Bavincourt, 24th September 1918. © IWM (Q 9397)

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension

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