Hénin Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais (CWGC)

HÉNIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Pas De Calais

France

GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.21815, Longitude: 2.83867

Location Information

Henin-sur-Cojeul is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, about 8 kilometres south-east of Arras on the D12E. Henin Communal Cemetery is approximately 0.75 kilometres south of the village and the Extension is on the east side of the Communal Cemetery.

Visiting Information

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

Historical Information

Henin-sur-Cojeul was captured on 2 April 1917, lost in March 1918, after an obstinate resistance by the 40th Division, and retaken on the following 24 August by the 52nd (Lowland) Division.

The extension was made between April and November 1917, chiefly by the 21st and 30th Divisions. It was used for 15 burials at the end of August 1918 and enlarged after the Armistice when 68 graves were brought in from HENIN BRITISH CEMETERY.

Henin Communal Cemetery Extension now contains 193 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 18 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate two casualties buried in Henin British Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.

Total Burials: 193.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 174, Canada 1. Total 175.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom18.

The extension was designed by W H Cowlishaw

33447 Private
Allan Brown
2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
2nd April 1917, aged 29.
Plot II. D. 16.

Son of H. and G. Brown, of Hull; husband of Mary Brown, of 24, Church St., Hull.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Ever In Thought; Mary."

Captain
Robert Alister Field, M. C.
2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
2nd April 1917, aged 22.
Plot II. D. 22.

Son of Joseph Louis and Frances Margaret Field, of 18, Lansdowne Rd., Wimbledon, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Feared Death So Little Because He Feared God So Much"

Pictures courtesy of Joy Reynard, (first cousin, twice removed) and St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon

Captain
Ralph Hugh Hine-Haycock
1st Bn. attd. 10th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
3rd May 1917, aged 25.
Plot I. B. 4.

Son of Ralph Watson Hine-Haycock and Margaret Emily Hine-Haycock, of Core Hill, Sidmouth.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Only Son Of Col. & Mrs. Hine-Haycock Of Core Hill, Sidmouth, Devon."

31389 Private
George Nolan
19th Bn. Manchester Regiment
2nd April 1917, aged 22.
Plot II. D. 30.

Son of Thomas and Mary E. Nolan, of 44, Water St., Bollington, Macclesfield.

His headstone bears the inscription; "He Died For Freedom And Honour; May He Rest In Peace."

10270 Company Quartermaster Serjeant
J. O'Gorman
6th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
3rd May 1917.
Plot I. B. 1.

Captain
Arthur Eustace Lockley West
213th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
28th April 1917, aged 24.
Plot I. A. 3.

Son of James Samuel and Lavinia Wise West, of 15, Teddington Rd., Milton, Portsmouth.

Second Lieutenant
Frank Whaley
"D" Coy. 2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
Formerly 18th (University and Public Schools) Bn. Royal Fusiliers.
31st March 1917, aged 21.
Plot II. D. 23.

Son of the Rev. Frank Webster Whaley and Agnes Whaley, of The Vicarage, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Settle, Yorks.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Until The Perfect Day."

Pictures courtesy of Margie Peters-Fawcett, great niece of this soldier

An 8-inch Mk V howitzer of 135th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in action near Hénin-sur-Cojeul, 27 May 1917. © IWM (Q 2263)

British troops resting beside a cemetery near Hénin-sur-Cojeul, as a German shell bursts in the distance, 27 May 1917. © IWM (Q 2262)

An officer and men using binoculars and a telescope at an advanced Royal Artillery observation post near Hénin-sur-Cojeul, 27 May 1917. © IWM (Q 2269)