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TANK CEMETERY

​Guémappe 
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Pas De Calais

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.2569, Longitude: 2.87983

Tank Cemetery

​Location Information

Guemappe is a village in the department of the Pas-de-Calais, 800 metres south-west of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D33). 

Tank Cemetery is about 700 metres north-west of Guemappe village, near the west side of the road from Monchy to Wancourt.

Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible with some difficulty.


Historical Information

Guemappe was captured by Commonwealth troops on 23 and 24 April 1917, twelve days after Wancourt. The village was lost on 23 March 1918 and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26 August.

Tank Cemetery was begun by fighting units in April 1917 and used by fighting units and field ambulances until June. It was damaged by shell-fire in 1918.

The cemetery contains 219 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 25 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known to be buried among them. Six graves in Row A, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words: "Buried near this spot". Row F is one big grave in which 64 men of the 7th Cameron Highlanders are buried.

Total Burials: 219.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 193, Canada 1. Total 194.

Unidentified Casualties: 25.

The cemetery was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith


Dedications


473117 Rifleman Alfred Overy, 12th Bn. London Regiment (The Rangers), 3rd May 1917, aged 38. Killed two days after arriving in France, leaving a wife and three daughters

Remembered by his grand-daughter Iris Clarke and family.


474210 Rifleman Robert Rogers, 12th Bn. London Regiment (The Rangers), 5th May 1917.

Remembered by his great grandchildren Jeannette, Michael, Keith, Caroline. R.I.P.
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511299 Private
Philip Geoffrey Butler Lawton
14th Bn. 
London Regiment (London Scottish)
11th May 1917, aged 20.
Row C. 25.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lawton, of Tudor House, Mossley, Manchester.

His headstone bears the inscription "Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory"





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S/40034 Private
Frederick Pickets
7th Bn. 
Cameron Highlanders
Died between 23rd April 1917 and 28th April 1917.
​Row F. 1.




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Second Lieutenant
Percy Cargill Reid
16th Bn. 
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
6th May 1917, aged 33.
Row D. 22.

Son of the late Edward Jervis Reid and Amy L. Reid, of 137, Ladbroke Rd., Notting Hill, London. Educated Wanganui College, New Zealand, and Marlborough. Joined Canadian Regt. as Private, 1915; obtained Commission, 1916.

His headstone bears the inscription "Until The Day Dawn"




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511892 Private
Harry Henry William Joseph Salter
14th Bn. 
London Regiment (London Scottish)
7th May 1917.
​Row C. 22.




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29122 Private
Harry Trippear
8th Bn. 
East Lancashire Regiment
11th April 1917, aged 24.
Row A. 15.

Son of Samuel and M. A. Trippear, of Rochdale; husband of Margaret Burke (formerly Trippear), of 8, Lloyd St. South, Moss Side, Manchester.

His headstone bears the inscription "Thy Will Be Done"





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S/10309 Private
Robert Walker
11th Bn. 
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
23rd April 1917.
Row E. 22.




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Royal Artillery forward observing officers at work near Guemappe, 29 April 1917. © IWM (Q 5279)
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Orderly room staff of the 1st (City of London) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), keep the unit's paperwork up to date in a trench near Guemappe, 29 April 1917. © IWM (Q 5274)

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

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