HANNESCAMPS CHURCHYARD
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.16649, Longitude: 2.63731
Location Information
Hannescamps is a village 20 kilometres to the south-west of Arras in the Department of the Pas de Calais.
Visitors should follow the N25, Arras to Doullens road, as far as Beaumetz les Loges. Take the D7 to Ransart before turning right onto the D3, towards Foncquevillers. From the centre of Hannescamp, along the D8, follow the CWGC sign for Hannescamps New Military Cemetery. Turn left at the second CWGC sign for Hannescamps New Military Cemetery into Rue de l'Église. The Churchyard is next to the New Military Cemetery.
Historical Information
Hannescamp was just behind the Allied front line until June 1916, and again in 1918.
Hannescamps Churchyard was used by Commonwealth forces from October 1915 to January 1916 and contains 21 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
S/6830 Rifleman
Alfred Joseph Curling
13th Bn. Rifle Brigade
15th November 1915.
Row D. 2.
Alfred Joseph Curling
13th Bn. Rifle Brigade
15th November 1915.
Row D. 2.
S/4277 Rifleman
Josiah Hutchinson
13th Bn. Rifle Brigade
15th December 1915.
Row D. 3.
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Josiah Hutchinson
13th Bn. Rifle Brigade
15th December 1915.
Row D. 3.
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S/4251 Rifleman
Jonathan Lewis
13th Bn. Rifle Brigade
17th December 1915, aged 23.
Row D. 4.
Son of Thomas and Margaret Lewis, of 16, Cooperative St., Ton Pentre (Rhondda), Glam.
His headstone bears the inscription "Canys Byw I Mi Yw Crist. A Marw Sydd Elw"
Jonathan Lewis
13th Bn. Rifle Brigade
17th December 1915, aged 23.
Row D. 4.
Son of Thomas and Margaret Lewis, of 16, Cooperative St., Ton Pentre (Rhondda), Glam.
His headstone bears the inscription "Canys Byw I Mi Yw Crist. A Marw Sydd Elw"
