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HAPPY VALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY

Fampoux 
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Pas De Calais

​France


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Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage
Location Information

Fampoux is a village 7 kilometres east of Arras (D33). Happy Valley British Cemetery is 5 kilometres south of the village down a 2 kilometre track on the road to Monchy-le-Preux.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty. 


Historical Information

Happy Valley was the name given to the long valley which ran eastward from Orange Hill, and along which Commonwealth troops fought their way on 10-11 April 1917 during the early stages of the Battle of Arras.

The cemetery was begun by the 12th (Eastern) Division after the battle, and used again by the 4th Division in December 1917.

Happy Valley Cemetery contains 76 First World War burials and commemorations. Six of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to a casualty known to be buried among them.

Casualty Details: UK 76, Total Burials: 76

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw
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3071 Trooper
Charles Edward George Fullerton
Household Battalion
19th December 1917, aged 19.
Row C. 8.

Husband of Mrs. N. C. Fullerton, of 12, Little North St., Lisson Grove, London.

Born in Marylebone on 7th Nov 1890 and pictured here in the uniform of the Household Battalion. This photo was taken with Norah Fullerton (nee Bryant) whom he had married early in 1917, but before the year was out he had been killed in action at the age of 27 on 19th Dec 1917. He is buried at Happy Valley, Fampoux. May he rest in peace.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Gone But Not Forgotten, Rest In Peace."

Picture courtesy of Karen Alldritt, great niece.

(Picture of grave in gallery above)

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Second Lieutenant
Ernest William Rush
7th Bn. Suffolk Regiment
28th April 1917, aged 32.
Row A. 12.

Son of William and Caroline Rush, of Rushmere, Ipswich; husband of Flossie Ellen Rush, of Chapel St. Mary, Ipswich.

His headstone bears the inscription; "His Victory A Crown Of Glory."


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A soldier reading at the entrance to his dug-out, reinforced with sandbags. Fampoux, 21 July 1917. © IWM (Q 5702)
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Battle of the Scarpe. A tank attached to the 51st Division embedded in the Scarpe marshes. Near Fampoux, 29 August 1918. © IWM (Q 7037)
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A German 5.9 inch howitzer blown 8 yards out of its pit on to its back by 9th Division Artillery in the west bank of the Happy Valley. © IWM (Q 5175)
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Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage

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