Vis-En-Artois Canadian Cemetery (Haucourt) | memorial, First World War 1914-1918

France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Haucourt
 memorial, cemetery, First World War 1914-1918
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Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt were taken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918. The cemetery was begun immediately afterwards and was used by fighting units and field ambulances until the middle of October. It consisted originally of 430 graves (in Plots I and II) of which 297 were Canadian and 55 belonged to the 2nd Duke of Wellington's Regiment. It was increased after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of April-June 1917, August and September 1918, and from the smaller cemeteries in the neighbourhood.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis-en-Artois_British_Cemetery,_Haucourt
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Coordinates:   50°14'46"N   2°57'0"E
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