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ROOKERY BRITISH CEMETERY

​Héninel
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​Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.23493, Longitude: 2.88478

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Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage

​Location Information

Heninel is a village and commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres south-east of Arras and 3 kilometres south of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai.

Rookery British Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres from Heninel village, 165 metres north-east of the road to Fontaine-les-Croisilles opposite Cuckoo Passage Cemetery.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty.


Historical Information

Heninel village was captured in a snowstorm on 12 April 1917 by the 56th (London) and 21st Division and the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, advancing from Heninel on the two following days, captured Wancourt Tower.

Rookery British Cemetery (named from a group of trenches) was made by the 18th and 50th Division Burial Officers in April-June 1917 and used until November 1917. Two further burials were made in August 1918.

The cemetery contains 55 First World War burials, one of which is unidentified.

The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw

Total Burials: 55.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 54.

Unidentified Casualty: United Kingdom 1.
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19363 Private
Percy Connell
6th Bn. 
Northamptonshire Regiment
9th June 1917.
​Row C. 11.




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Captain
Kenneth Mackenzie
9th Bn. 
Royal Scots
27th August 1918.
Row C. 31.


Son of John Ord Mackenzie, of Dolphinton; husband of May Endora Campbell (formerly Mackenzie), of Dolphinton House, Dolphinton, Edinburgh.



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159075 Sapper
Dynawd Cadifor Morgan
92nd Field Company, 
Royal Engineers
2nd June 1917, aged 26.
Row B. 5.


Son of Mr. M. D. and Mrs. E. Morgan, of 70, Glanbrydan Avenue, Swansea.

His headstone bears the inscription "Oh For A Touched Of The Vanished Hand A Sound Of The Voice That Is Still"

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201835
George Ruddick
1st/4th Bn. 
Yorkshire Regiment
27th June 1917.
​Row B. 10.




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43723 Corporal
Edward Thomas Shearman
8th Bn. 
Norfolk Regiment
7th May 1917, aged 39.
Row C. 28.

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Son of Mrs. E. T. Shearman, of King's Lynn; husband of Mrs. I. J. Shearman, of 13, Coronation Square, King's Lynn.

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Lieutenant
Ferdinand Nigel Sherwell
7th Bn. 
Bedfordshire Regiment
13th June 1917.
​Row C. 12.




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31110 Private
George Stratford
6th Bn. 
Northamptonshire Regiment
3rd June 1917.
​Row B. 7.




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36398 Private
Ernest Taylor
1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
19th July 1917.
Plot A. 3.

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15336 Corporal
George Ephraim Turner
6th Bn. 
Royal Berkshire Regiment
2nd June 1917, aged 22.
Row B. 8.


Son of John and Martha Turner, of 768, Oxford Rd., Reading.

His headstone bears the inscription "Rest In Peace"




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British soldier taking up screw pickets for wiring. Heninel, 23 October 1917. © IWM (Q 6135)

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