Highland Cemetery

 cemetery, First World War 1914-1918

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Roclincourt was just within the British lines before the Battles of Arras 1917; and it was from the village that the 51st (Highland) and 34th divisions advanced on the 9th April, 1917. Highland Cemetery was made (under the name of Roclincourt Forward Cemetery No. 1) when the battlefields were cleared after the 9th April, 1917, and Plot I, Rows A. and C and Plot II, Rows A and D are almost exclusively occupied by the graves of the 51st Division. Plot I, Row B and Plot II, Row C were made, after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of Arras; Plot II, Row C contains graves of Canadian Field Artillery and Railway Troops brought from Fond-de-Vase British Cemetery, nearly 1.6 kilometres East of Maroeuil.