GRAND RAVINE BRITISH CEMETERY
Havrincourt
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Havrincourt is a village approximately 10 kilometres south west of Cambrai and 3 kilometres south of the Cambrai to Bapaume road (N30). The cemetery is signposted from the centre of the village. Continue along Rue de Ribecourt. Passing the 62nd Division Memorial, the single track road continues into Havrincourt Wood where the cemetery is signposted to the right. and is located at the end of an unsurfaced track about 100 metres long.
Historical Information
Havrincourt village was stormed by the 62nd (West Riding) Division on 20 November 1917. It was lost on 23 March 1918, but it was retaken on 12 September by the 62nd Division, who held it against a counter-attack the following day.
Grand Ravine British Cemetery consists of three rows of graves. Row B was made by the 62nd Division Burial Officer in December 1917, and Rows A and C by the same officer in October 1918.
The cemetery contains 139 First World War burials, 11 of them unidentified.
Casualty Details: UK 139, Total Burials: 139
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
Havrincourt is a village approximately 10 kilometres south west of Cambrai and 3 kilometres south of the Cambrai to Bapaume road (N30). The cemetery is signposted from the centre of the village. Continue along Rue de Ribecourt. Passing the 62nd Division Memorial, the single track road continues into Havrincourt Wood where the cemetery is signposted to the right. and is located at the end of an unsurfaced track about 100 metres long.
Historical Information
Havrincourt village was stormed by the 62nd (West Riding) Division on 20 November 1917. It was lost on 23 March 1918, but it was retaken on 12 September by the 62nd Division, who held it against a counter-attack the following day.
Grand Ravine British Cemetery consists of three rows of graves. Row B was made by the 62nd Division Burial Officer in December 1917, and Rows A and C by the same officer in October 1918.
The cemetery contains 139 First World War burials, 11 of them unidentified.
Casualty Details: UK 139, Total Burials: 139
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
Second Lieutenant
Joseph Dines
13th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
27th September 1918, aged 32.
Row A. 42.
Husband of Ethel Henrietta Eugenie Dines, of 176, Chigwell Rd., South Woodford, London.
His headstone bears the inscription; "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember."
Joe Dines was an amateur footballer who represented the England amateur team at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, winning the gold medal. During his football career he played for Liverpool, Queen's Park Rangers, Millwall, King's Lynn, Ilford and Walthamstow Avenue.
Joseph Dines
13th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
27th September 1918, aged 32.
Row A. 42.
Husband of Ethel Henrietta Eugenie Dines, of 176, Chigwell Rd., South Woodford, London.
His headstone bears the inscription; "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember."
Joe Dines was an amateur footballer who represented the England amateur team at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, winning the gold medal. During his football career he played for Liverpool, Queen's Park Rangers, Millwall, King's Lynn, Ilford and Walthamstow Avenue.
42006 Lance Corporal
Joseph Megson
2nd/5th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
20th November 1917, aged 40.
Row B. 5.
Husband of Mary W. Megson, of 31, Ryecroft St., Ossett, Yorks.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Beloved husband of Mary W. Megson, of Ossett, Yorkshire."
Joseph Megson
2nd/5th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
20th November 1917, aged 40.
Row B. 5.
Husband of Mary W. Megson, of 31, Ryecroft St., Ossett, Yorks.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Beloved husband of Mary W. Megson, of Ossett, Yorkshire."
47434 Private
Alfred Naylor
2nd/4th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
28th September 1918, aged 25.
Row C. 39.
Son of Bennett and Annie Naylor, of Denholme Drive, Ossett, Yorks.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Of 3 South Terrace Ossett, Yorkshire. The Sacrifice Was Great."
Alfred Naylor
2nd/4th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
28th September 1918, aged 25.
Row C. 39.
Son of Bennett and Annie Naylor, of Denholme Drive, Ossett, Yorks.
His headstone bears the inscription: "Of 3 South Terrace Ossett, Yorkshire. The Sacrifice Was Great."
Men of the 11th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in a captured German communications trench near Havrincourt during the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917. © IWM (Q 3187)
An artillery observation officer on top of a ruined wall at Havrincourt, 20 November 1917. © IWM (Q 3205)
