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HÉNINEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.2393, Longitude: 2.87006

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Location Information

Héninel is a village some 10 kilometres south-east of Arras on the D33. The Cemetery is a little north-east of the village on the north side of the road from Heninel to Cherisy down a 500 metre track.


Historical Information

Héninel village was captured in a snowstorm on 12 April 1917 by the 56th (London) and 21st Division and the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, advancing from Heninel on the two following days, captured Wancourt Tower.

The extension was begun by the 50th Division Burial Officer in April 1917 and was used by fighting units until the following November.

Héninel Communal Cemetery Extension contains 141 burials of the First World War, seven of them unidentified.

The extension was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith

Total Burials: 141. 

Commonwealth World War One Identified Burials: United Kingdom 134.

Commonwealth World War One Unidentified Burials: United Kingdom 7.


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250658 Private
Alfred Ash
1st/6th Bn. 
Durham Light Infantry
14th April 1917, aged 22.
Row A. 6.

Son of Mr. J. B. and Fanny Ash, of Branston, Lincoln.


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797093 Bombardier
George Hubert Broom
"Z" 62nd Trench Mortar Battery, 
Royal Field Artillery
15th September 1917, aged 31.
Row D. 20.

Husband of Kate Emily Broom, of "Castle Villa", St. Marks, Cheltenham.

His headstone bears the inscription "Until The Day Dawn & Shadows Flee Ever Remembered By His Loving Wife"




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201003 Lance Corporal
Luke Donnelly
4th Bn. 
East Yorkshire Regiment
11th September 1917, aged 22.
Row E. 7.

Son of James and Frances Donnelly, of 2, Wilberforce Grove, Northumberland Avenue, Hull.



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27161 Lance Sergeant
Godfrey Dove
10th Bn. 
Durham Light Infantry
7th June 1917, aged 23.
Row B. 9.

Son of George Ripley Dove and Margaret Dove, of Middlesbrough.



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28126 Private
Herbert Greaves
6th Bn. 
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
15th May 1917, aged 28.
​Row G. 1.


Husband of Mrs. J. Cunningham (formerly Greaves), of 44, Fitzhubert Rd., Manor Estate, Sheffield.

His headstone bears the inscription "Gone But Not Forgotten "


Please note that this casualty was previously commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

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21204 Private
Bernard Hoyes
No. 2 Company, 11th Bn. 
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
29th April 1917, aged 25.
Row C. 5.

Son of Charles James and Sarah Gertrude Hoyes, of 19, Pir St., Cadishead, Manchester.



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Captain
Hugh Richard Longbourne, D. S. O. 
7th Bn. 
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
3rd May 1917, aged 32.
​Row B. 17.


Son of Charles R. V. and Caroline Elizabeth Ainslie Longbourne, of Highmead, Guildford. Born at Ripsley, Sussex. Raised a Coy. in Hunts Cyclist Bn. Feb., 1914, transf. to The Queen'S, 1916.

His headstone bears the inscription "Thy Noble Example Liveth Even As Thy Great And Glorious Spirit Shall Never Die"

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242470 Private
Frank H. Maltby
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
19th July 1917
Row C. 28.

Son of Samuel & Sarah Annie Maltby of Cambridgeshire
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551843 Rifleman
Francis Frederick Rothen

1st/16th Bn. London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
14th April 1917
Row A. 2.

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18115 Private
William Underwood
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
15th July 1917
Row B. 29.

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Soldier of the Gordon Highlanders (51st Division) tending his trench garden. Heninel, 23 October 1917. © IWM (Q 6131)
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British soldier taking up screw pickets for wiring. Heninel, 23 October 1917. © IWM (Q 6135)
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Concrete strong point in the Hindenburg Line near Heninel, 3 May 1917. © IWM (Q 5284)

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Héninel Communal Cemetery Extension
Héninel Communal Cemetery Extension
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