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MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY

​Mory 
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​Pas De Calais

​France


​GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.15906 Longitude: 2.85968

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Location Information

Mory is a village between Arras and Bapaume, and about 2 kilometres east of the village of Ervillers.

Mory-Abbey Military Cemetery is 450 metres north of the village on the north side of the road to Ecoust-St. Mein opposite a large farm called "L'Abbaye".


Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Mory village was occupied by Commonwealth troops in the middle of March 1917. It was lost after obstinate defence by the 40th and 34th Division a year later and recaptured towards the end of the following August, after severe fighting, by the 62nd (West Riding) and Guard Divisions.

The German burials in a plot on the west side of the cemetery were made by German troops in March-August 1918, or by Commonwealth troops in September 1918. The Commonwealth plots were begun at the end of March 1917 and carried on by fighting units until March 1918, and again in August and September 1918, as far as and including Plot III. The graves in Plots IV and V - including many of the Guards Division, and chiefly of 1918 - were added after the Armistice from the battlefields between St. Leger and Bapaume. They also included concentrations from the following smaller cemeteries:-

GRENADIER GUARDS CEMETERY, ST. LEGER, on the road to Vraucourt, which contained the graves of 24 men of the 2nd Grenadier Guards and two other soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell on the 27th August 1918.

HALLY COPSE EAST CEMETERY, ST. LEGER, between "Hally Copse" and the road to Vraucourt, which contained the graves of 49 soldiers from the United Kingdom (all of the Guards Division except one) who fell in August 1918.

MORY FRENCH CEMETERY, nearly a kilometre South-West of the village, in which three soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in February and March 1917.

Mory Abbey Military Cemetery contains 619 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 101 of the burials are unidentified, but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains 230 German burials.


Casualty Details:
UK 616, Australia 1, New Zealand 1, South Africa 1, Total Burials: 619.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
 & George Hartley Goldsmith
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 Lieutenant Colonel, Richard Annesley West, V. C., D. S. O. and Bar, M. C., Twice Mentioned in Despatches.

North Irish Horse, commanding 6th Bn. Tank Corps, 2nd September 1918 aged 40. Plot III. G. 4. 
Served in the South African War.

​Son of Augustus E. and Sarah West, of Whitepark, Co. Fermanagh; husband of Maude E. West, of 14, Trafalgar Square, Chelsea, London.


Citation:
An extract from the Second Supplement to "The London Gazette", No. 30982, dated 29th Oct., 1918, records the following:-"For most conspicuous bravery, leadership and self-sacrifice. During an attack, the infantry having lost their bearings in the dense fog, this officer at once collected and re-organised any men he could find and led them to their objective in face of heavy machine-gun fire. Throughout the whole action he displayed the most utter disregard of danger, and the capture of the objective was in a great part due to his initiative and gallantry."

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Lieutenant
Hugh Reginald Baldwin
1st Bn. Irish Guards
27th August 1918, aged 20.
Plot V. C. 25.

Son of Edward T. and Emily Baldwin, of 1, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "In Arduis Fidelis." (Latin: Faithful in Adversity)


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42119 Private
Leonard Blackwell
2nd/6th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
10th March 1918.
Plot III. J. 8.

Son of Mr. W. Blackwell, of Higher Clough, Dale Head, Clitheroe, Lancs.


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Lieutenant Colonel
James Henry Chadwick, D. S. O.
24th Bn. Manchester Regiment
4th May 1917, aged 36.
Plot I. C. 10.

Son of Hiram and Alice Chadwick, of Upper Edge, Elland, Halifax, Yorks. M.A. (London), B.A. (Cambridge). H.M. Inspector of Schools.

His headstone bears the inscription; "M.A. London B.A. Cambridge H.M. Inspector Of Schools."



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27003 Private
Alfred Crabtree, M. M.
"A" Coy. 1st Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
24th August 1918, aged 23.
Plot III. E. 1.

Son of Walter and Lucy Ann Crabtree 
of 8, Oak Mount, Willow Bank, Todmorden.

His headstone bears the inscription; "At Rest."



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Captain
William Cummings
Royal Army Medical Corps.
18th May 1917.
Plot I. E. 10.


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Lieutenant
Leon David Goldseller
5th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
14th April 1917, aged 21.

Plot I. C. 1.

Son of Ben and Bertha Goldseller, of 63, Mosley St., Manchester.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Into Thy Hands O Lord."

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Lieutenant
Cyril Gwyer
2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards
27th August 1918, aged 32.
Plot IV. C. 20.

Son of Charles Gwyer, of Eywood Titley, Herefordshire; husband of Constance Francis Kennedy (formerly Monckton), of Stretton Hall, Stafford.

His headstone bears the inscription; "They Shall Be Mine Saith The Lord Of Hosts."

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8271 Private
Ernest Hiskey
12th Bn. Suffolk Regiment
24th March 1918, aged 23.
Plot IV. B. 18.

Son of Mrs. E. Hiskey, of 64, Lady Lane, Ispwich.

His headstone bears the inscription; "The Peace Of God Passeth All Understanding."


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Lieutenant
Roderic Magrath Oliver
2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards
27th August 1918, aged 36.
Plot V. C. 16.

Son of Roderic and Emily Mary Oliver, of Burnt Oak, Orlestone, Ashford, Kent. Born in London. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Solicitor in London.

His headstone bears the inscription; "
The Peace Of God Passeth All Understanding."

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Second Lieutenant
Charles Maxwell Pullan
2nd West Riding Bde. Royal Field Artillery
22nd March 1917, aged 20.
Plot V. D. 26.

Son of John Green Pullan and Laura Pullan, 
of "The Laurels", Summerbridge, Harrogate.

His headstone bears the inscription; "At The Going Down Of The Sun & In The Morning We Will Remember Him."

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Captain
Augustus Tilbury
Royal Field Artillery
8th June 1917.
Plot I. I. 1.


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Captain
Lawrence Arnold Wilkins
4th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
25th August 1918, aged 24.
​Plot IV. E. 6.

Son of the late Rev. Lawrence Wilkins and of Mrs. E. Jessie Wilkins, of 4, Clare Valley, The Park, Nottingham.

His headstone bears the inscription; "In His Steps" Jesus Said Unto Him Follow Me Matt. 8.22."


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An Indian cavalry patrol armed with lances advancing over open country near Mory, March 1917. © IWM (Q 5062)
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An orderly of the Royal Army Medical Corps and two soldiers of the Gordon Highlanders at an advanced dressing station in Ervillers, 17 October 1917. Note the gas gong. © IWM (Q 6094)

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