The Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt is a

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(CWGC) burial ground for the dead of

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located between the

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Vis-en-Artois Vis-en-Artois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Vis-en-Artois is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D939 and the D9 roads. History World War I deeply affected ...

and Haucourt in the

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Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...

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History

The area was captured by the Canadian Corps in late August 1918 and the cemetery was opened soon after and was in use until after the armistice with reburials from the battlefield.

Vis-en-Artois Memorial

Located in the cemetery is the Vis-en-Artois Memorial which lists the names of 9813 men (9806 British and 16 South African) who fell from 8 August 1918 to the Armistice and who have no known grave. The memorial has a screen walls in three parts on which is carved the names of the missing listed by regiment. The memorial was designed by British sculptor

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Notable Graves

* Cyril Biddulph * Leonard Allan Lewis * Viscount Glentworth

References

External links

* * Vis-en-Artois Cemetery – * Vis-en-Artois Memorial – {{DEFAULTSORT:Vis-En-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt Monuments and memorials in the Pas-de-Calais Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France

1918 establishments in France Cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais