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    His body was eventually found on 19 February 1929 and interred at Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt, Plot III, Row N, Grave 27. In 1919 a memorial was placed...
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  • The Arras culture is an archaeological culture of the Middle Iron Age in East Yorkshire, England. It takes its name from the cemetery site of Arras, at...
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  • as a sergeant with the London Scottish Regiment near Arras. He is buried in the Arras Road Cemetery in Roclincourt. List of Olympians killed in World War...
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    The Arras Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located in the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery, in the western part of the town of Arras. The...
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    Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, was formerly known as Harrogate Cemetery. It was established in 1864 after the spa town expanded...
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    Regiment 12 August 1915 Helles Memorial Private W. George Watson 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment 9 November 1918 Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt...
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  • of the road junction where the Béthune-Arras road crosses that running from Thèlus to Mont St Eloi. In one area La Targette British Cemetery, an enormous...
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    member of Jagdstaffel 23. Second Lt. Frank Ferguson is buried at Arras Road Cemetery near Roclincourt, France. Ferguson married Helen Ross of Wynyard...
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    of Monchy-le-Preux on the main Arras to Cambrai road (D339) in the département of Pas-de-Calais, France. The cemetery contains the graves of 368 known...
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    Notre Dame de Lorette (category Cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais)
    Military Cemetery, is the world's largest French military cemetery. It is the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at...
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    The Arras Flying Services Memorial Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial in the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France. The memorial commemorates...
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    Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster Tower Vis-en-Artois Memorial...
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    battlefields of 1917–1918 between Arras and Bapaume, and from the following smaller burial grounds in the area: Baralle Communal Cemetery British Extension, which...
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    approximately 20 kilometers south of Arras, France. The two towns are linked by the D919 road. The coordinates of the cemetery are 50°04′50″N 2°37′36″E / 50...
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    miles (13 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D73, D74, D75 and D49 roads, just by the N39 Arras-Le Touquet road. The church of St. Kilien,...
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  • Pozières Memorial Commonwealth military cemetery and memorials: Faubourg D’amiens Cemetery, Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial Commonwealth...
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  • located north of Bapaume, which is itself located on the D917 road between the cities of Arras and Paris. First World War Bapaume was conquered by the Germans...
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    farming village situated 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D956 and D5 roads. During World War I, Écoust-Saint-Mein was located on...
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    Croisilles, Pas-de-Calais (category Arras arrondissement geography stubs)
    located 8 miles (13 km) south of Arras at the junction of the D5 and D9 roads. Many of the residents commute to work in Arras or the town of Bapaume to the...
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    Thiepval Memorial (category Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France)
    memorials to the missing of the war, such as those at Loos, Pozières and Arras. The inscription of names on the memorial is reserved for those missing...
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  • War, one of the most costly battles in military history. Since then, cemeteries and memorials have been established for casualties on both sides, as well...
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    Canadian National Vimy Memorial (category Canadian military memorials and cemeteries)
    assault during the initial Battle of Vimy Ridge offensive of the Battle of Arras. The Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first time all four divisions of the Canadian...
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  • Alexander was killed by a shell during this action. He is buried at the Arras Road Cemetery in the Pas de Calais, France. List of international rugby union players...
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    Douaumont Ossuary (category World War I cemeteries in France)
    monument, and sloping downhill, lies the largest single French military cemetery of the First World War with 16,142 graves. It was inaugurated in 1923 by...
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    Morchies (category Arras arrondissement geography stubs)
    region of France. Morchies is situated 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Arras, on the D18 road. The church of St.Vaast, rebuilt, as was all of the village, after...
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    northern France. A light industrial suburb of Arras located 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Arras, at the D3 and D5 road junction. The river Crinchon flows through...
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    northern France. A village located 2 miles (3 km) east of Arras at the junction of the D37 and D42 roads. Initially, Athies was called Atheiae, a word taken...
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    Arras-sur-Rhône is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France. Arras-sur-Rhône is located 2 km south of...
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    panels, arranged by regiment or other unit. The fourth side of the cemetery, on the road frontage, is formed by an open arcade, with the entrance archway...
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    going towards Soleimani's grave in the Golzar Shohada (Garden of Martyrs) cemetery, around the Saheb al-Zaman mosque, to commemorate the fourth anniversary...
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