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Memorial Park
Vimy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France




La Chaudière Military Cemetery

Vimy Ridge was taken by the Canadian Corps in April 1917 in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, although the 25th and 47th (London) Divisions had also been involved in heavy fighting there in May 1916.
The cemetery was made at the foot of the ridge, on the north-eastern side, next to a house which had contained a camouflaged German gun position. It remained very small until the summer of 1919, when graves were brought in from many other small cemeteries and isolated sites (some of these from the 1916 fighting) on or near the ridge. At this time, the cemetery was known as Vimy Canadian Cemetery No. 1.
There are now 908 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 314 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to a number of casualties known to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate men whose graves in some of the concentrated cemeteries had been destroyed in subsequent fighting.


La Chaudière Military Cemetery The memorial La Chaudière Military Cemetery
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La Chaudière Military Cemetery


Pte. J. E. Ainsworth Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Awards:
Grave Reference:
Ainsworth, J. E.
Private
13015
23 April 1917
Norfolk Regiment, 1st Bn.
M. M.
III. D. 1.

Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Brough, L.
Private
22146
23 April 1917
Devonshire Regiment, 1st Bn.
VI. C. 1.
Pte. L. Brough

L/Cpl. H. S. Bullett Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Bullett, H. S.
Lance Corporal
15908
23 April 1917
Devonshire Regiment, 1st Bn.
VI. C. 2.

Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Butters, C.
Private
9349
20 April 1917
24
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn.
VI. D. 16.
Pte. C. Butters

Pte. A. W. Butts Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Butts, A. W.
Private
10740
23 April 1917
East Surrey Regiment, 1st Bn.
VI. C. 4.

Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Duffield, A.
Private
103087
06 June 1917
Canadian Infantry, 102nd Bn.
VI. B. 4.
Pte. A. Duffield

Pte. T. W. Haggett Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Haggett, Tom Wellington
Private
27666
15 April 1917
23
Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 16th Bn.
III. A. 12.

Name:
Rank:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:

Grave Reference:
Lockhart, George Barclay
Captain
14 April 1917
24
Royal Flying Corps
and Highland Cyclist Bn., Army Cyclist Corps
VI. D. 17.
Capt. G. B. Lockhart

Pte C. F. Mann Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Mann, Cyril Fredric
Private
696297
03 June 1917
25
Canadian Infantry, 50th Bn.
VI. B. 2.
Additional information:
Son of William and Elizabeth Mann, of Bridgeford, Saskatchewan.

Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Palmer, H. W.
Private
808015
03 June 1917
Canadian Infantry, 50th Bn.
VI. B. 5.
Pte. H. W. Palmer

Pte. J. G. Pattison Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Awards:
Grave Reference:
Pattison, John George
Private
808887
03 June 1917
42
Canadian Infantry, 50th Bn.
V. C.
VI. C. 14.

Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Poole, Frank
Private
20895
24 April 1917
19
Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 14th Bn.
V. E. 18.
Private F. Poole
Additional information:
Son of Samuel Johnson and Emma Poole, of 178, Cambridge St., Rugby.

Lieut. S. G. Stroud Name:
Rank:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Stroud, S. G.
Lieutenant
13 October 1918
Essex Regiment, 9th Bn.
III. A. 11.

Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Symons, Charles Edward
Private
34288
23 April 1917
35
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn.
VI. D. 15.
Pte. C. E. Symons
Additional information:
Son of William Henry and the late Elizabeth Ann Symons;
husband of Mary Emma Adelaide Symons, of 9, Holdsworth St.,
Pennycomequick, Plymouth. Native of Plymouth.

Pte. H. Todd Name:
Rank:
Service No:
Date of Death:
Regiment/Service:
Grave Reference:
Todd, H.
Private
907309
12 May 1917
Canadian Infantry, 102nd Bn.
V. E. 19.

Name:
Rank:
Date of Death:
Age:
Regiment/Service:

Grave Reference:
Wilson, Alexander Philip
Lieutenant
14 April 1917
23
Royal Flying Corps, 2nd Sqdn.
and General List
VI. D. 18.
Lieut. A. P. Wilson
Additional information:
Son of Alexander and Margaret Wilson,
of Baronald Promenade, Leven, Fife.

Unknown soldier Not all soldiers have their names
on their headstones.
Also they are not forgotten.
Unknown soldier

Mr. Brian Bowrin from Richmond, Ontario, Canada visited Vimy and took all these interesting pictures and gave us the permission to use them on this page. Thousand thanks to Brian Bowrin.


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