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MOYENNEVILLE (TWO TREE) CEMETERY
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​Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.17716, Longitude: 2.76405

Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery

​Location Information

Moyenneville is in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 13 kilometres south of Arras and 3 kilometres east of Bapaume.



Historical Information

The village of Moyenneville was occupied by the 7th Division on the 17th March 1917, lost at the end of the following March, and recaptured by the Guards Division on the 21st August, 1918.

Two Tree Cemetery takes its name from two large trees of which the stumps exist by the roadside 64 metres to the North-East. It was made after the capture of Moyenneville in August, 1918.

There are 49, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 16 are unidentified. Almost all these soldiers belonged either to the 15th West Yorkshire Regiment, which held out at Moyenneville for thirty-six hours in March, 1918, or to the Guards Divisions, who re-took the ground in August. 

The cemetery covers an area of 208 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall.

​The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw

Total Burials: 49.

Identified Burials: United Kingdom 33.

Unidentified Burials: 16.

Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery
Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery
Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery

August 1965 - ©CWGC

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20515 Private
Christopher Boumford
3rd Bn. 
Grenadier Guards
21st August 1918, aged 27.
Row B. 10.


Son of William Thomas and Mary Anne Boumford, of 19, Sutherland Terrace, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

His headstone bears the inscription "Duty Called Obeyed At Rest"





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40253 Sergeant
John Flatley
15th /17th Bn. 
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
26th March 1918.
Row A. 18.




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Attack on Moyenneville. A Scots Guardsman giving wounded German prisoner a drink. Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918. © IWM (Q 6983)
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Capture of Moyenneville. German prisoners taking back wounded crossing the old German second line, 21 August 1918. © IWM (Q 6982)
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Attack on Moyenneville. A dead German soldier outside his dug out. Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918. © IWM (Q 6985)

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery
Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery
Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery
Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery
Moyenneville (Two Tree) Cemetery

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