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SANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
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​Nord

​France


​GPS Coodinates - Latitude: 50.22127, Longitude: 3.18624

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© Johan Pauwels
Location Information

Sancourt is a village in the Department of the Nord, 5 kilometres north-west of Cambrai and 1 kilometre east of the main Cambrai to Douai road (N43).

Sancourt British Cemetery is signposted from the village and can be found about 600 metres along the Rue Maurice Camier.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.


Historical Information

Sancourt village was captured by the Canadian Corps on the 29th September 1918. The British Cemetery was made in October 1918.

There are 236, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 19 are unidentified.

The cemetery covers an area of 634 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall.

Total Burials: 236.

Identified Casualties: Canada 211, United Kingdom 6. Total 217.
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2378692 Private
George Jacob Cameron
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry 
1st October 1918.
Plot II. A. 16.
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408458 Private
Roy Ellwood Hawkins
1st Bn. Canadian Infantry 
1st October 1918, aged 23.
Plot I. C. 32.

Son of Charles J. Hawkins, of Severn Bridge, Ontario.

​His headstone bears the inscription: "Here Honor Comes A Pilgrim Gray To Bless The Turf That Wraps His Clay."

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50765 Private
Tom Hadley Houghton
4th Bn. Canadian Infantry
​1st October 1918, aged 28.
Plot I. D. 30.

Son of Joseph and Emma Houghton, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario; husband of Bertha A. Houghton, of Rocky River, Ohio, U.S.A.

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475183 Private
Henry Pratt
1st Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps
1st October 1918, aged 30.
Plot II. B. 11.

​Son of Charles and Ada P. Pratt, of Longstock, Stockbridge, Hants, England. Native of Payhembury, Devon, England.

His
 headstone bears the inscription: "Them Also Which Sleep In Jesus Will God Bring With Him I Thess. IV. 14."

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3105120 Private
John Thomas Snow
14th Bn. Canadian Infantry
1st October 1918, aged 27.
Plot II. A. 27.

Son of Thomas and Rachel Snow, of Newfoundland.


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823388 Lance Corporal
​Fred Todman
1st Bn. Canadian Infantry 
1st October 1918, aged 32.
​Plot I. B. 31.


Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Todman, of Brighton, England; husband of May Todman (nee Leslie), of 185, Maitland St., London, Ontario.

His
 headstone bears the inscription: "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends."​

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681768 Private
George Van-Buren
4th Bn. Canadian Infantry
​1st October 1918.
Plot I. A. 28.
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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)

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