Ecoivres Military Cemetery CWGC

France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Mont-Saint-Eloi /
 cemetery, First World War 1914-1918, war memorial
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This cemetery is really the extension of the communal cemetery, where the French army had buried over 1000 men. The 46th (North Midland) Division took over the extension with this part of the line in March 1916, and their graves are in Rows A to F of Plot I. Successive divisions used the French military tramway to bring their dead in from the front line trenches and, from the first row to the last, burials were made almost exactly in the order of date of death. The attack of the 25th Division on Vimy Ridge in May 1916 is recalled in Plots I and II. The 47th (London) Division burials (July to October 1916) are in Plot III, Rows A to H, and Canadian graves are an overwhelming majority in the rest of the cemetery, Plots V and VI containing the graves of men killed in the capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 After the Armistice, the graves of eight men of the 51st (Highland) Division were brought in to Plot VIII, Row A, from nearby Bray Military Cemetery.
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Coordinates:   50°20'35"N   2°41'11"E

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  • Interesting for Canadians: Captain Victor Gordon Tupper, the grandson of Canada's sixth prime minister Sir Charles Tupper, is buried at Ecoivres.
  • Canadian Pte. Eugene Perry was executed by firing squad. His remains are located in Plot VI, Row C, Grave 7.
  • I would like to find the grave site of my great uncle, Arthur Cliffe who was buried at Ecoivres Military Cemetery in 1916. He was with the 13th Cheshire Reg, from Great Britain
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