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HÉNIN CRUCIFIX CEMETERY 
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Pas De Calais

​France


​GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.22728, Longitude: 2.8334

Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Location Information

Henin-sur-Cojeul is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres south-east of Arras and 2 kilometres east of the main road to Bapaume.

The Cemetery is on the north side of the village and on the east side of the road to Neuville-Vitasse.


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site make 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.

Henin Crucifix Cemetery is named from a calvary standing on the opposite side of the road. It was made by units of the 30th Division after the capture of the village in 1917.

Henin Crucifix Cemetery contains 61 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Two of the burials are unidentified and eight graves, destroyed in later fighting, are now represented by special memorials.

Total Burials: 61.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 59.

Unidentified Casualties: 2.


The cemetery was designed by G H Goldsmith
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Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
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Second Lieutenant
Alfred Rothwell Carr
9th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th April 1917, aged 29.
Row A. 39.

Son of John Lindley Carr and Jane Carr, of "The Elms," Sale, Cheshire.


His headstone bears the inscription; "Faithful Unto Death."

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32319 Private
Harry Grice
​20th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th April 1917.
​Row A. 40.

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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)
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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)
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British troops resting beside a cemetery near Hénin-sur-Cojeul, as a German shell bursts in the distance, 27 May 1917. © IWM (Q 2262)
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Distant view of a shell bursting near the war cemetery at Henin-sur-Cojeul, 27 May 1917. © IWM Q 2257
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Henin, France. c. 1917. British Army soldiers lining up to take their medicine at an army dispensary just behind the front line.
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
Pre 1936 - ©CWGC
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
c. Late 1930's - ©CWGC
Henin Crucifix Cemetery
November 1966 - ©CWGC

Nearby Cemeteries

Henin Communal Cemetery Extension
Cojeul British Cemetery
St. Martin Calvaire British Cemetery

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