Tank Cemetery, Guémappe
Location
Guémappe is a village in the department of the Pas-de-Calais, 800 metres south-west of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D33). Tank Cemetery is about 700 metres north-west of Guémappe village, near the west side of the road from Monchy to Wancourt.
On the main Arras Cambrai Road (N39 / D 939) you arrive at Monchy-le-Preux with Windmill Cemetery on your left and the panel towards the village for the Newfoundland Monument. On the opposite side of the road are CWGC signs directing you towards this cemetery down the D 33.
| GPS | N | E | OSM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decimal | 50.256747 | 2.879705 | Map |
Historical Information
Guémappe was captured by Commonwealth troops on 23rd and 24th April 1917, twelve days after Wancourt. The village was lost on 23rd March 1918 and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26th August.
Tank Cemetery was begun by fighting units in April 1917 and used by fighting units and field ambulances until June. It was damaged by shell-fire in 1918.
The cemetery contains 219 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 25 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known to be buried among them. Six graves in Row A, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words: “Buried near this spot”.
Row F is one big grave in which 64 men of the 7th Cameron Highlanders are buried.
Lance Serjeant George Tidman G/10870
4th Bn Royal Fusiliers
Died on 13th April 1917 aged 30
Son of William and Caroline Tidman
of 112 Reading Rd Henley-on-Thames
Husband of the late Alice Tidman
Grave: D 1
Second Lieutenant Percy Reid
16th Bn London Regiment
(Queen’s Westminster Rifles)
Died on 6th May 1917 aged 33
Son of Amy and the late Edward Reid
of 137 Ladbroke Rd, Notting Hill, London.
Educated Wanganui College, New Zealand,
and Marlborough.
Joined a Canadian Regiment as
a Private in 1915
Obtained his Commission in 1916.
Grave: D 22