Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Location
Region : Bruay, Pas-de-Calais, France
Latitude : 50.48803
Lontitude : 2.52771
CWGC Link : 56200
Bruay is a large village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 6 kilometres south-west of Bethune and 26 kilometres north-west of Arras. Leave Bruay on the N.41 (Bethune/St Pol road). Turn right where signposts indicate Lens/Calonne-Riquart. After 400 metres turn right again, sign Cimetiere Ouest. Continue up the hill past the minor memorial. The cemetery is found after one kilometre on the right hand side. The Commonwealth plot is in the far right hand corner.

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Cookstown Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait Portrait Pte. Colvin M.M., Andrew 202071 Canadian Infantry 23/12/1917 Grave L-3
Cemetery History
The extension to the communal cemetery was begun by French troops in October 1914, on land belonging to the Compagnie des Mines de Bruay.
When the French Tenth Army handed over this part of the line to Commonwealth forces in March 1916, the 22nd Casualty Clearing Station, which was established at Bruay, continued to bury in it.
Nearly half the burials in the extension are from the Canadian Corps who occupied this sector from early in 1917.
There are now 412 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the extension. The Commonwealth plots, which were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, also contain some French and German war graves.
Cemetery Links
No Link Reference Doc
1 Findagrave.com Gravestone photos.
2 War Graves Photo Project War Graves Photographic Project
3 WWI Cemeteries Details of cemetery including some grave photos