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[yeroenimo]

Bovengenoemde begraafplaats word in de canadese documantaire for King and Country de minstbezochte begraafplaats op het Westelijke front te zijn. Is iemand van jullie hier ooit geweest?

[Paddy]

Cemetery: THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY
Country: France
Locality: unspecified
Visiting Information: Wheelchair access with some difficulty. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our enquiries department on telephone number 01628 634221.
Location Information: Thelus is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, west of the N17 Arras-Lens main road and 6.5 kilometres north of Arras. Thelus Military Cemetery is approximately 300 metres west of the N17, located in the open country, about 50 metres north of Thelus village.
Historical Information: The village, which stands on the Vimy Ridge, was captured by the Canadian Corps on the 9th April, 1917, and it remained in British hands until the end of the War. The oldest part of Thelus Military Cemetery is a large grave, originally called "CB 8"* and now forming Plot II, which was made after the capture of the Ridge; the remaining Plots were made by fighting units from June, 1917 to September, 1918, except for Plot IV and part of Plot V, which were brought in from the battlefields of Vimy and Thelus after the Armistice. There are now nearly 300, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 30 are unidentified. The cemetery covers an area of 1,459 square metres and the access path an additional area of 357 square metres. It is enclosed by a red brick wall. *The numerous groups of graves made about this time by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer were, as a rule, not named, but serially lettered and numbered.
No. of Identified Casualties: 263

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Patrick De Wolf
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"We're doomed, I tell ye!"

[Paddy]

Cemetery: THELUS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Country: France
Locality: unspecified
Location Information: Thelus is a village and commune some 7 kilometres north of Arras, about 1 kilometre east of the main road (N.25) to Lens and Lille. The communal cemetery is about 365 metres north of the church in a by-road leading from the church to the main road. In the north-eastern part, on the eastern side of the main path from the calvary and entrance at the south of the cemetery, are the graves of 3 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 2 of whom are not identified.
No. of Identified Casualties: 1
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Greetings from a Little Gallant Belgian:-)
Patrick De Wolf
http://ablhistoryforum.be/

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
"We're doomed, I tell ye!"

[Paddy]

THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY



http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_photos.aspx?cemetery=30200&mode=1
_________________
Greetings from a Little Gallant Belgian:-)
Patrick De Wolf
http://ablhistoryforum.be/

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
"We're doomed, I tell ye!"