Vis En Artois British Cemetery and Memorial, France
Video of this large cemetery and memorial in northern France. Here's what wiki says about the memorial
This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave. They belonged to the forces of Great Britain and Ireland and South Africa; the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces being commemorated on other memorials to the missing.
The Memorial consists of a screen wall in three parts. The middle part of the screen wall is concave and carries stone panels on which names are carved. It is 26 feet high flanked by pylons 70 feet high. The Stone of Remembrance stands exactly between the pylons and behind it, in the middle of the screen, is a group in relief representing St George and the Dragon. The flanking parts of the screen wall are also curved and carry stone panels carved with names. Each of them forms the back of a roofed colonnade; and at the far end of each is a small building.
and about the cemetery
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, including:-
BOIS-DU-SART BRITISH CEMETERY, PELVES, at the North-Western angle of the Bois-du-Sart, which contained the graves of ten soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom and nine soldiers from Canada who fell in August and September 1918.
DURY GERMAN CEMETERY was on the South-East side of Dury village, a little South of the road to Saudemont. It contained the graves of four British and 49 German soldiers.
ECOURT-ST. QUENTIN GERMAN CEMETERY on the East side of the road to Lecluse. It contained the graves of 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom.
ETAING COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION, which contained the graves of six soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom, who fell in 1917 and 1918, 331 German soldiers (including some who fell in August 1914), and two Russian prisoners.
LECLUSE GERMAN CEMETERY, on the West side of the village, contained the graves of 476 German soldiers, eleven soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1917, and one Russian prisoner.
MONCHY QUARRY CEMETERY was in a quarry 800 metres South-East of Monchy-le-Preux. It contained the graves of 22 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in July 1917.
PELVES CANADIAN CEMETERY, nearly 1.6 kilometes due South of the village, contained the graves of 39 soldiers from Canada who fell in August and September 1918.
PELVES COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION, which contained the graves of two soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1917.
RUMAUCOURT GERMAN CEMETERY, on the Southern edge of the village, which contained the graves of 21 soldiers from the United Kingdom and six from Australia.
SAILLY-EN-OSTREVENT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which was destroyed by shell-fire, contained the graves of three soldiers from the United Kingdom (two of which were recovered).
VIS-EN-ARTOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION, which was very badly shelled, contained the graves of 621 German soldiers, 14 from the United Kingdom, eight French and five Russian.
The cemetery now contains 2,369 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,458 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to eight casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate four soldiers buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found on concentration.
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Les-Hauts-de-France / Pas-de-Calais (Vis-en-Artois)
cimetiere de Vis en Artois (62)
Vis-en-Artois est une commune française située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais en région Hauts-de-France.La Première Guerre mondiale a marqué profondément la commune, qui fut sous la coupe des Allemands dès le 30 septembre 1914 et ne fut libérée que le 24 août 1918 par les Canadiens. Au cours des années 1917 et 1918, le village fut complètement détruit. Les habitants qui n’avaient pas fui avant l’arrivée des troupes envahissantes furent évacués à La Glanerie en Belgique.Le 24 septembre 1920, la commune de Vis-en-Artois est citée à l’ordre de l'armée et reçoit la croix de guerre.L’empereur Guillaume II est venu à Vis pour assister à la bataille de Monchy-le-Preux, Vis étant un village situé juste devant la ligne Hindenburg. Aujourd’hui le Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery regroupe 2 369 tombes dont 885 abritent des victimes identifiées. Il a été aménagé par l’architecte R. Truelove, qui a conçu le mémorial du Touret à Richebourg.
Ce cimetière continua à être utilisé après l'Armistice pour y regrouper les tombes du champ de bataille. Il contient les tombes de soldats et aviateurs au nombre desquels 1748 Britanniques, 582 Canadiens, 6 Australiens et 2 Sud-Africains.
Mémorial de Vis en Artois (62)
Le monument (Mémorial) de Vis-en-Artois rappelle les noms de 9806 soldats Britanniques et 16 soldats Sud-Africains qui sont tombés dans ce secteur mais dont les tombes sont inconnues. La partie principale du monument est composé d'un imposant hémicycle, d'une sculpture sobre, comportant une immense pierre tombale et un bas-relief vigoureux représentant Saint-Georges terrassant le dragon.
Après avoir difficilement stoppé les offensives allemandes du printemps 1918, les Alliés, renforcés par l’arrivée en ligne des divisions américaines, entreprennent à partir du 8 août l’offensive qui allait les mener à la victoire. L’armée britannique, en charge du front qui va des Flandres à la Somme et qui compte désormais d’importants contingents australiens et canadiens, attaque successivement en Picardie, puis dans les secteurs d’Arras et de Bapaume avant de se porter, à l’automne, à l’assaut de la ligne Hindenburg près de Cambrai. Vis-en-Artois est libérée fin août 1918 par les Canadiens.
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Vis-en-Artois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.
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A L LEWIS VC France ceremony
This ceremony was held by the Welsh Guards Pilgrims at the Vis-en-Artois Cemetery, Haucourt, France. Our Herefordshire Hero is commemorated on panel 7 at the rear of the site.
15 03 2015 19eme Vis en Artois
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Stadium Vis en Artois les boy's =
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I gotta say, the trenches there were pretty neat!
Cimetière militaire de Vis en Artois (de la vallée) (62)
La Première Guerre mondiale a marqué profondément la commune, qui fut sous la coupe des Allemands dès le 30 septembre 1914 et ne fut libérée que le 24 août 1918 par les Canadiens.
Au cours des années 1917 et 1918, le village fut complètement détruit. Les habitants qui n’avaient pas fui avant l’arrivée des troupes envahissantes furent évacués à La Glanerie en Belgique. Le 24 septembre 1920, la commune de Vis-en-Artois est citée à l’ordre de l’armée et reçoit la guerre. L’empereur Guillaume II est venu à Vis pour assister à la bataille de Monchy-le-Preux, et que Vis était un village situé juste devant la Hindenburg. Tout le village fut reconstruit dans les années 1920 et son monument aux morts fut inauguré le 10 août 1924.
Valley Cemetery se trouve au sud de Vis-en-Artois, à environ 12 kilomètres au sud-est d’Arras.
Le cimetière a été commencé le 31 Août 1918 avec l'enterrement de 31 officiers et les hommes du 3e bataillon d'infanterie canadienne, qui était décédé la veille à la prise de la tranchée Orix, dans la grande tombe à la ligne A. Dix sépultures ont été apportées au début de Septembre et en 1924-25.
Valley Cemetery contient maintenant 69 sépultures et des monuments commémoratifs de la Première Guerre mondiale. 19 des sépultures ne sont pas identifiées et il ya un monument commémoratif spécial pour une victime enterré dans Cimetière allemand Thilloy, dont la tombe n'a pu être retrouvée. Le cimetière a été conçu par WH Cowlishaw.
Il contient les tombes de : Royaume-Uni 25, du Canada 37 et d’Australie 7
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WWI Cemetery
A L LEWIS VC MEMORIAL FUND
This wonderful ceremony was performed at Vis-en-Artois Cemetery France by members from the Welsh Guards Pilgrims and Hay-on-Wye Royal British Legion in remembrance of my great-uncle Allan Leonard Lewis VC. He has no known grave but his name is engraved on the wall behind them.
Allan Leonard Lewis VC is Herefordshire's only county born VC recipient. The ALLAN LEONARD LEWIS VC MEMORIAL FUND has been set up to raise funds to honour him with a bronze statue on the centenary of his brave achievement. The statue will stand in the centre of Hereford.
Please see our facebook page for updates
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Here's what CWCG say about this cemetery
La-Ville-Aux-Bois-Les-Pontavert village was captured by the French, after severe fighting, in April 1917; and on the 27th May 1918, the 50th Division was driven from the high ground behind it, in the Battle of the Aisne. The 2nd Devons and the 5th Battery, 45th Brigade, R.F.A., won the Croix de Guerre for their devoted courage on this occasion, and a granite cross, erected by the Devonshire Regiment, stands on the main road near the place where the Battalion was annihilated. The village was completely destroyed.
One further burial was made in 1920.
There are now 564 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war commemorated here, of which 413 are unidentified. There is also 2 burials of the 1939-45 war, 1 being an airman of the United Kingdom and 1 being a French Foreign National. Special memorials are erected to four United Kingdom soldiers, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 18 others, buried in certain German Cemeteries, whose graves could not be found.
The two ww2 graves appear to be a SOE Lysander pilot and his SOE French passenger.