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NINTH AVENUE CEMETERY

​Haisnes 
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Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.48392, Longitude: 2.78916

Ninth Avenue Cemetery

​Location Information

Ninth Avenue Cemetery is situated 3 kilometres south of the village of Haisnes and 1 kilometre south-west of the village of Hulluch, and 274 metres south of the road from Hulluch to Vermelles. Ninth Avenue Cemetery is a little way north-west of Bois-Carre Military Cemetery.


Historical Information

The village of Haisnes remained in German hands until the final advance in the year 1918, but parts of the commune were gained by British troops in the Battle of Loos.

Ninth Avenue Cemetery was named from a trench which ran across the North end of it. It consists of one large grave.

There are 46, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 1 is unidentified. 

The cemetery covers an area of 242 square metres and is enclosed by a flint wall. The headstones to the Cameron Highlanders are erected in the form of a square round the cemetery.

The Cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith

Total Burials: 46.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 45.

Unidentified Casualty: United Kingdom 1. 

Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery

Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem

Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
Ninth Avenue Cemetery
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S/16158 Private
James Hennessey
1st Bn. 
Cameron Highlanders
29th September 1915, aged 25.
Special Memorial 16.

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Son of Andrew and Catherine Hennessey.

His headstone bears the inscription "The Moon Has Arisen It Shines On That Path Now trod By The Gallant And True"

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3/5292 Private
Donald John MacLeod
1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
28th September 1915.
Special Memorial 41.

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11864 Lance Corporal 
Robert McArthur
1st Bn. 
Cameron Highlanders
28th September 1918.
​Special Memorial 8.




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S/11845 Private
Ewart Shemwell
​1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
28th September 1915, aged 21.
Special Memorial 33.


Son of Mrs. Thomas Shemwell, of 7, Wellpark Cottages, Neilston, Glasgow, and the late Thomas Shemwell.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "His Deeds Will Never Die."

Picture
First Army Front: annotated vertical aerial reconnaissance showing German camouflaged field gun positions on either side of the Lens-la Bassee Road outside Haisnes (top left). © IWM (HU 91106)
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April/May 1919; The Line of Hulluch-Lens road from Hill 70. (Library and Archives Canada)

NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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BOIS-CARRÉ MILITARY CEMETERY, HAISNES
ST. MARY'S A. D. S. CEMETERY
VIOLAINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

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