Vaulx Hill Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location Rue de Lagnicourt, Vaulx-Vraucourt, Pas-de-Calais - Hauts-de-France, France
Co‑ordinates N50.15119, E2.9186
Description

Location Information
Vaulx-Vraucourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 6 kilometres north-east of Bapaume. Vaulx Hill Cemetery is signposted from the village. Take the RD36 direction Lagnicourt up the hill, and the Cemetery can be seen at the road side 1 kilometre from Vaulx-Vraucourt.

History Information
Vaulx-Vraucourt village was taken in the spring of 1917, lost (after severe fighting) in March 1918, and retaken in the following September. Vaulx Hill Cemetery started with just 17 graves of September 1918 (in Plot I, Rows A and B). The rest of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields in the immediate neighbourhood and the following smaller cemeteries:- CHAFOURS WOOD CEMETERY, Morchies, which contained 17 Australian and five United Kingdom graves of 1917. LAGNICOURT AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY, which contained seven Australian graves of 1917 and 27 United Kingdom of September 1918. NEW ZEALAND CEMETERY No.17, Favreuil, where 22 of the 2nd New Zealand Rifles Brigade were buried in August 1918. SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, Beaumetz-Les-Cambrai, which contained 23 Australian and five United Kingdom graves of May 1917. VRAUCOURT CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, which was across the road from the Church and contained 185 United Kingdom and seven Australian graves of 1917 and 1918 (a GERMAN EXTENSION was also removed). The cemetery now contains 856 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 258 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate 29 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and four others buried in other cemeteries whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.

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SCRUTTON, Arthur Edward

Service number 2971
Private
54th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Jul 1882

METCALFE, Robert Richard

Service number 4853
Private
5th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

AULIFF, Herbert Trevor

Service number 4072
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Jan 1882

EVANS, David Stanley

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
23rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 Dec 1890

O'BRIEN, William

Service number 1578
Second Lieutenant
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 8 Oct 1892

KILPATRICK, Ernest

Service number 759
Private
23rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1884

TWIGDEN, Cyril Roy

Service number 5862
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 Nov 1895

PROVAN, Laud Rupert Somerville

Service number 4134
Corporal
30th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Jul 1895

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