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LE VERTANNOY BRITISH CEMETERY

​Hinges

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Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Le Vertannoy is a hamlet nearly 1 kilometre west of the village of Hinges, which is a small village 2 kilometres north west of the town of Bethune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. From the church in Hinges head north-west towards Gonnehem and after 500 metres turn left. The cemetery is approximately 200 metres on the left.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.


Historical Information

The cemetery was begun in April 1918, during the Battles of the Lys, and was used by field ambulances, burial officers and fighting units until the following September.

Le Vertannoy British Cemetery contains 141 First World War burials, two of them unidentified.

Casualty Details: UK 141, Total Burials: 141

The cemetery was designed by W C Von Berg
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Lieutenant
Lestock Handley Adams
1st Bn. Rifle Brigade
22nd April 1918, aged 30.
Row A. 2.

Son of the Rev. H. F. S. Adams, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Red Hill; husband of Emilie Anderson Adams, of Fern, Buxton, late of Winnipeg, Canada.


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28216 Private
Walter Fender
2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment
3rd september 1918, aged 19.
Row E. 18.

Son of Thomas and Sarah Fender, of 1O9, Stansfield St., Blackburn.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "He Bravely Answered Duty's Call And Gave His Life For One And All."


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Captain 
John Eric Trevor-Jones, M. C.
6th Bn. attd 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade
22nd April 1918, aged 20.
Row A. 4.

Born at Aberdare, Glam. Son of Lt. Col. E. J. Trevor-Cory, O.B.E., T.D., of 38, Hyde Park Gate, London. Late of Clare College, Cambridge.


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10th April 1918; Battle of the Lys: Wounded British and Portuguese troops entering a hospital train at Hinges. © IWM (Q 345)
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10th April 1918; Battle of the Lys: British light wounded outside a dressing station near Hinges. © IWM (Q 343)
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10th April 1918; Defence of Hinges Ridge. Men of 51st (Highland) Infantry Division in a shell-hole near Locon which they have made into a rifle pit, 10 April 1918. © IWM (Q 6500)

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