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TIGRIS LANE CEMETERY

​Wancourt 
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​Pas De Calais

​France


​GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.25584, Longitude: 2.84516

Picture
© Johan Pauwels
Location Information

Wancourt is a village 1.5 kilometres south of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai. Tigris Lane Cemetery is on the north-east side of the road from Wancourt to Tilloy, the D37E, and next to the TGV railway line.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible with some difficulty. 
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Historical Information

Wancourt was captured on 12 April 1917, after very heavy fighting. The village was lost in March 1918 and re-taken by the Canadian Corps on 26 August 1918.

The cemetery (named from a trench) was made by the burial officer of the 14th (Light) Division in May 1917, and was used again in August-September 1918.

The cemetery contains 119 First World War burials, nine of them unidentified.

Casualty Details: UK 86, Canada 33, Total Burials: 119

The cemetery was designed by
G H Goldsmith.
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1931 - ©CWGC
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June 1954 - ©CWGC
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Lieutenant
Le Roy Eaton Awrey
1st Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps
30th August 1918, aged 29.
Plot II. A. 3.

Son of Mary H. Awrey, of Hamilton, Ontario, and the late George Awrey. A Barrister.


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Major
John Neill Black
6th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
9th April 1917, aged 22.
Plot I. E. 12.

Son of William Neill Black and May Gordon Black, of Olleworth Park, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos.

​His headstone bears the inscription: "Non Crux Sed Lux."

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R/6463 Rifleman
Moses Plimmer
7th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
11th April 1917.
Plot I. C. 9.

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S/28580 Rifleman
Edward Sladen
7th Bn. Rifle Brigade
11th April 1917, aged 19.
Plot I. C. 11.

Son of Mrs. Sarah Sladen, of 7, Wesley St., Smallbridge, Rochdale.

​His headstone 
bears the inscription: "Until The Shadows Flee Away."

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Second Lieutenant
Arthur Lincoln Springfield
3rd Bn. attd. 6th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
9th April 1917, aged 25.
Plot I. B. 7.

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Son of Lincoln and Elizabeth Springfield.

His headstone 
bears the inscription: "With My Pals For Ever."


Picture
Troops of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in an avenue of dug-outs near Wancourt, 29 April, 1917. © IWM (Q 5272)

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Hibers Trench Cemetery
Wancourt British Cemetery
Guemappe British Cemetery

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