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HUMBERCAMPS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION 
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Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Humbercamps is a village in the department of the Pas de Calais situated just off the main road from Arras to Doullens, N25, along the D26 approximately 20 kilometres south west of Arras and 16 kilometres east of Doullens. The site lies to the north of the village alongside the Communal Cemetery. A CWGC signpost indicating the direction to the Cemetery can be found on the village green.


Historical Information

There are two War Graves in the Communal Cemetery and 79 in the Extension

The EXTENSION is on the North- Eastern side of the Communal Cemetery, in part of an old orchard. It was used mainly by Field Ambulances, from September 1915 to February 1917 and for 6 burials in March 1918. It covers an area of 753 square yards.


Casualty Details: UK 79, Total Burials: 79

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12284 Private
John Arthur Black
7th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
19th December 1915
Plot I. C. 3.


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Lieutenant
Humphrey William Devereux
5th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
26th June 1916, aged 22.
Plot II. A. 1.

Son of Walter de Laci Devereux and Blanche Isobel Devereux, of Middlewood, Worth, Sussex. Born at Scarning, Dereham, Norfolk.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Memento Pueruli Illius Quem Cognovisti Atque Tantopere Amavisti" English translation is roughly "In Memory Of A Boy Who Was Very Much Loved"


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11115 Private
James Poyser
6th Bn. Leicestershire regiment
18th March 1916, aged 24.
Plot I. E. 1.

Son of Isaac and Sarah Ann Poyser, of Kingsley Cross, Cheadle, Stoke-on-Trent.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Thy Will Be Done."


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A light railway engine derailed through the sinking of the rails due to heavy rains near Souastre, 16 July 1918. © IWM (Q 6849)
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A stretcher bearer party of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment stand on a road in Fonquevillers, March 1917. All are wearing their steel helmets and carry their box respirators around their necks. They are holding an empty stretcher, ready to collect casualties as necessary. © IWM (Q 1643)


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