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MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY 

Tilloy-Lez-Cambrai
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​Nord

​France


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​Location Information

Tilloy-lez-Cambrai is a village 2.5 kilometres north of Cambrai. Mill Switch British Cemetery is west of the village on the Cambrai-Douai road (N43) beside the A2/E19 motorway.


Historical Information

Tilloy village was captured by the Canadian Corps at the end of September 1918, and the cemetery was made by the Corps Burial Officer in the following month. 

The name is due to a switch line from the Cambrai-Douai railway which ran in September 1918, to a large German supply dump on the site of the mill 800 metres North-West of the cemetery. 

There are now 101, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 3 are unidentified.

The cemetery covers an area of 281 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall. 

Forty-seven of the graves in this cemetery were brought after the Armistice from CAMERON CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-CAMBRAI, which stood near the South-West side of the railway line almost due West of the village. It was made by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer in October, 1918. It contained the graves of 47 Canadian soldiers, 34 of whom belonged to the 43rd Battalion.

Total Burials: 107.

Identified Casualties: Canada 101, United Kingdom 3, Total 104.

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1063070 Private
Frank Boulton
116th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 21.
Row A. 2.


Son of William E. and Susan Stone Boulton, of Burleigh Falls, Ontario.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Dead But Not Forgotten."

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3082024 Private 
Nazaire Demers
43rd Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918.
Row A. 12.
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3081942 Private
Edward Dennett
43rd Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1018, aged 36.
Row C. 2.

Husband of Margaret Dennett, of 23, Meadow St., Blackburn, England.

His headstone bears the inscription; "May His Soul Rest In Peace."

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829245 Private
Hilbert Greenwood
2nd Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
10th October 1918, aged 20.
Row C. 25.

Son of Lewis and Florence Greenwood, of 42, Boyle St., Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born at Halifax, England.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Loving Thoughts Shall Ever Linger Round The Place Where He Is Laid."

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475361 Sergeant
Henry Leggo Harry Hammond 
No. 4 Coy. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
30th September 1918, aged 22.
Row C. 21.

Son of Henry R. Hammond and his wife Edith C. Leggo, of Lachute, P.Q., Canada.


His headstone bears the inscription; "To You From Failing Hands We Throw The Torch Be Yours To Hold It High." (From the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by 
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.)

Cemetery pictures in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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Men of the the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) salvaging German rifles near Marcoing, 22 November 1917. © IWM (Q 6312)
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448714 Private
Alexander Moore
​116th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 32.
Row B. 15.

Son of Thomas Moore and Jane Moore (nee O'Neill); husband of Mrs. A. Morean-Moore, of 1926, St. Denis St., Montreal. Born at Quebec.


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4000006 Private
​John Davidson Morrison
4th Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
1st October 1918.
Row B. 4.


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487282 Sergeant
Malcolm Douglas Schell, D. C. M.
​Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
28th September 1918, aged 23.
Row C. 22.


Son of Malcolm S. and Josephine H. Schell, of Woodstock, Ontario. Educated at Toronto University. Enlisted in 1915.

His headstone bears the inscription; "He Did For God And Right And Liberty."


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163482 Private
Cunningham Falconer Shaw
3rd Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
3rd October 1918.
Row A. 9.

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Capture of Cambrai by the British 57th Division. Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment wearing pickelhaubes which they found whilst on patrol in Cambrai, 9 October 1918. © IWM (Q 11367)

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