The Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves, and places of commemoration, of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars...

 (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 located between the communes of Vis-en-Artois

Vis-en-Artois

Vis-en-Artois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Vis-en-Artois is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D939 and the D9 roads.-History:...

 and Haucourt in the département of Pas-de-Calais, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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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 inuse 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 the 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 Ernest Gillick

Ernest Gillick

Ernest Gillick was a British sculptor.Gillick studied at the Nottingham School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. His first important commission was for the figures of J.M.W...

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Notable Graves

• Cyril Biddulph
  Cyril Biddulph
  Cyril Biddulph was a Canadian stage actor who frequently performed in the United States.-Life:Cyril Biddulph was born 28 January 1887 on the British military base Curragh Camp in County Kildare, Ireland...
  
  
• Leonard Allan Lewis
  Leonard Allan Lewis
  Allan Leonard Lewis VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Viscount Glentworth

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