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NEUVILLE-VITASSE ROAD CEMETERY 
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Pas De Calais​

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.23757, Longitude: 2.83299

Neuville-Vitasse Road Cemetery
Image above © Johan Pauwels

Location Information

Neuville-Vitasse is a village 6 kilometres south-east of Arras on the D5 road towards Croisilles. 

The Cemetery lies 1 kilometre south-east of the village (east of the D5 road) and is reached by a track. 


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to this cemetery with some difficulty. 


Historical Information

The village of Neuville-Vitasse was captured by the 56th (London) Division on 9 April 1917, almost entirely lost at the end of March 1918, and cleared at the end of the following August. 

The cemetery was made by units of the 33rd Division after the first capture of the village, and two other burials were added in June 1917.

Neuville-Vitasse Road Cemetery now contains 86 First World War burials, 11 of them unidentified.

Total Burials: 86.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 75.

​Unidentified Casualties:​ United Kingdom 11. 


The cemetery was designed by
G H Goldsmith
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Cemetery images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

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Second Lieutenant
Frederic Ashcroft
18th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th April 1917, aged 30/31.

Row B. 1.



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14932 Serjeant
George Bevan
​18th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th April 1917, aged 23.
Row A. 16.

Son of Isaac Bevan, and the late Mrs. Bevan, of Stafford.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Though Death Divides Fond Memory Clings, Alice."

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300137 Company Sergeant Major
Thomas Chrisp, M. M. 
1st/8th Bn. 
Durham Light Infantry
22nd June 1917, aged 24.

Son of Annie and the late Thomas Chrisp (Inspector of Police, Wooler); husband of May Dickinson Chrisp, of Summerleigh, Choppington, Northumberland. A schoolmaster (Bede College).

His headstone bears the inscription "I. H. S."




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57504 Private
Harry MacPherson Cooper
​18th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th April 1917, aged 23.
Row A. 23.


Son of the late David Cooper, and of Jane B. Cooper, of 323, Clepington Rd., Dundee.

His headstone bears the inscription; "He Died That We Might Live."

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21828 Private
Jack Hankin
18th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th April 1917.
Row A. 15.


Son of Mrs. E. Hankin, of 23, Arlington St., Aigburth Rd., Liverpool.

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26732 Private
John William Norris
2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment
9th April 1917.
Plot D. 4.

​Husband of Ethel Norris, 43 Wellington Street, Yeovil.

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57565 Private
Charles Pattie
​18th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

9th April 1917.
Row A. 3.

​From Dundee, Scotland.

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19014 Private
Reginald Skull, D. C. M. & M. M. 
2nd Bn. 
Wiltshire Regiment
9th April 1917, aged 20.
Row B. 10.

Son of Thomas and Mabel Skull, of Hook, Wootton Bassett, Wilts.

His headstone bears the inscription "In The Midst Of Life We Are In Death"




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3/9713 Private
George Henry Green Taylor
2nd Bn. 
Wiltshire Regiment
9th April 1917, aged 24.
Row D. 5.

Brother of Mr. W. T. Taylor, of 36, Archer Rd., Eastleigh, Hants.



Picture
Field kitchens and British troops resting on the road between Neuville and Wancourt, 29 April 1917. © IWM (Q 5269)
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Aerial reconnaissance photograph taken in the Neuville Vitasse area, and map showing precise area covered by the photograph. © IWM (HU 53508)

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