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HÉNINEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Pas De Calais

​France


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.

Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension contains 140 burials of the First World War, seven of them unidentified.


Casualty Details: UK 140, Total Burials: 140
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242470 Private
Frank H. Maltby
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
19th July 1917
Row C. 28.

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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)

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    • SEINE-MARITIME
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