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PROVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY 
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​Nord

​France


Location Information

Proville is a village adjoining the town of Cambrai in the Department of the Nord.

Proville British Cemetery is situated in the Rue Gabriel Peri, which can be found by following the D56 road from Cambrai towards Noyelles sur Escaut. The cemetery is signposted at the junction of the D56 and the Rue Gabriel Peri.


Historical Information

The village of Proville was captured on 8-9 October 1918 and the cemetery was made in the same month by the 61st Division and the 8th North Staffords. It was increased after the Armistice when 21 graves were brought in from the battlefields west of Cambrai. The dates of death are from the 20th September to the 19th October.

Proville British Cemetery now contains 149 First World War burials, 27 of them unidentified.

Total Burials: 149.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 122. Total 122.

The cemetery was designed by
W C Von Berg.
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201493 Private
John Norcross
2nd/4th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
2nd October 1918, aged 22.
Plot I. B. 9.

Son of Richard Wright Norcross and Jane Norcross. Born at Preston.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Peace, Perfect Peace."

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29327 Private
Frederick Munford
​1st/5th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st October 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. A. 15.


Son of Mr. and Mrs. Munford, of West Hay, King's Cliffe, Peterborough.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Gone But Not Forgotten."

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31229 Private
G. R. Tuck
​1st/5th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st October 1918.
Plot I. A. 20.



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Battle of Cambrai. A German shell-burst in a field near Cambrai. Soldiers of the Machine Gun Corps hurrying to get into the cover of their post, 8 October 1918. © IWM (Q 11377)
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Capture of Cambrai by the British 57th Division. A patrol of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in a burning street in the southern suburbs of Cambrai, 9 October 1918. © IWM (Q 11363)
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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)

Cemetery pictures in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

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