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JEMAPPES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Hainaut

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.44496 Longitude: 3.8936

Location Information

The village of Jemappes is located south-west of Mons off the R5 ring. From the E19 motorway turn off at junction 24a and onto the ring R5. Follow the ring to the junction with the N51, turn left onto the N51 direction Jemappes. Follow the N51 into Jemappes and turn left into rue des Trois Hurees, then left into rue de l'Argilliere and the cemetery is along on the left. The graves are located along the centre path behind a hedge past the centre island.


Historical Information

Jemappes Communal Cemetery contains 18 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, nine of which are unidentified. All date from August 1914 or November 1918, and in most cases they were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice.

Identified Casualties: Canada 5, United Kingdom 4. Total 9.

Unidentified Casualties: 9.


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132890 Private 
Alexander Burnside42nd Bn. Canadian Inf. (Quebec Regt.)
10th November 1918, aged 35.

​Born Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Alexander & Jane Burnside of 5 Ernest Avenue, Toronto, Canada. 
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His headstone bears the inscription "Prepare To Follow Me"

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Lieutenant 
Frederick John Longworth, M. C.
9th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
10th November 1918, aged 25.

Son of Louise C. Longworth of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and the late John A. Longworth.

His headstone bears the inscription "Virtue et Valore"


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132904 Private 
Arthur Mills Stanley
"C" Coy. 42nd Bn. Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt.)
10th November 1918, aged 29.

Husband of Mary S. Stanley of 2658 Waverley St., Montreal, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription "A Secret Thought A Secret Tear Keeps His Memory Ever Dear"





Other Burial Details

255456 Private  E. Gretton, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 10th November 1918

7905 Private P. S. F. Marshall, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regt. 24th August 1914, aged 23. Son of Mrs. Lucy Jane Marshall

L/6601 Private G. R. Stevens, 4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. 29th September 1914, aged 33. Husband of Elizabeth Stevens of 24 Lismore Road, Philip Lane, Tottenham, London

2265502 Private 
E. W. Thackray, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Inf., Eastern Ontario Regt. 9th November 1918, aged 29. Son of the Rev. W. W. Thackray; husband of Cora A. Thackray of 251 North Street, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. 

255230 Private 
W. S. Welsh, 3rd Canadian Machine Gun Corps. 10th November 1918, aged 39. Son of Robert Welsh; husband of Mrs. R. Breimon (formerly Welsh) of Kinistino, Saskatchewan, Canada

Lieutenant
 W. H. Williams, 326th Seige Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery. 9th Nov. 1918.

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