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GUÉMAPPE BRITISH CEMETERY

​Wancourt

​Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Wancourt is a village about 8 kilometres south-east of Arras, and Guemappe British Cemetery is about 1 kilometre north-east of the village, to the south of the junction of the roads to Monchy-le-Preux and Guemappe (D34).


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Guemappe was captured by Commonwealth troops on 23 and 24 April 1917, twelve days after Wancourt. It was lost on 23 March 1918 and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26 August.

Guemappe British Cemetery was begun by the 15th (Scottish) Division after the capture of Guemappe, and used by fighting units until January 1918. It was severely damaged by shell-fire in 1918.

The cemetery contains 169 burials of the First World War, six of them unidentified.

Casualty Details: UK 169, Total Burials: 169
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Second Lieutenant
William Blair
8th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
23rd April 1917, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 2.

Son of William and Jane Thomson Blair, of 19, Royal Park Terrace, Edinburgh.


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S/11990 Private
David Ramsey Brown

9th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
26th April 1917, aged 21.
Plot I. D. 11.

Son of Mrs. A. Brown, of 13, Erdington Rd., Atherstone, Warwickshire.





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S/15952 Lance Corporal
F. J. Isaacs
8th/10th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
23rd April 1917
Plot I. C. 28.




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Captain
Leonard Graeme Morrison
​9th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
23rd April 1917, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 9.


Son of Charles and Helena Geraldine Morrison, of Bonnytown, St. Andrews.

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Air Photograph No. 5906. Sheet 51B. N. 18 etc. Guemappe., Cherisy. © IWM (Q 17255)
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S/11922 Lance Corporal
Norman Taylor
8th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
23rd April 1917
Plot I. B. 27.


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Second Lieutenant
Alastair Fisher Watson
​9th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
23rd April 1917, aged 25.
Plot I. E. 8.

Born at Renton, Dumbartonshire. Son of The Rev. A. Cameron Watson and Elizabeth R. S. Watson, of The Manse, St. Boswells, Roxburghshire.

His headstone bears the inscription: "Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory. . . . Through Our Lord Jesus Christ" 1 Cor. Ch. 15 V. 54 And 57."


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Air photograph No 5906. Sheet 51B N18 etc. Guemappe, Cherisy. © IWM (Q 17254)

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