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 VILLERS-GUISLAIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
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Nord

​France


Location Information

Villers-Guislain is a village in the Department of the Nord, over 1.5 kilometres south of the main road from Cambrai to Peronne.

The British graves are in the south-west part of the cemetery.


Historical Information

Villers-Guislain was severly damaged by shell fire during the War.

There are now over 50, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified and eighteen graves, destroyed by shell fire, are now represented by Special Memorials.

The plots cover an area of 202 square metres.

Casualty Details: UK 51, Total Burials: 51
Picture
40170, Private
Arthur George Allbright
2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment 
2nd May 1917, aged 20.
Plot B. 13.

Son of John and Elizabeth Allbright, of 76, Henry St., Northampton. 

Picture courtesy of Robert Harrison of London, Arthur Allbright was his Great Uncle.

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