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| Debt of Honour Register188 In Memory of GEORGE CHRISTIE Able Seaman ClydeZ/2926 Howe Bn. R.N. Div., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died on Tuesday 14 August 1917 . Age 23 . Arleux-en-Gohelle is a village on the main Arras to Henin-Lietard road, the D919. The Cemetery lies on the left side of this road approximately 1 kilometre from the village of Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult. The cemetery was begun in April, 1917, on the new front resulting from the Battles of Arras, and it was used by the units holding that front until the following November. The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the neighbouring battlefields and from other burial grounds. There are over 3,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, more than four-fifths are unidentified and special memorials are erected to ten soldiers from the United Kingdom and four from Canada known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 38 Canadian soldiers and six from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Certain graves in Plots VII, VIII and IX, identified collectively but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words "Buried near this spot". | ||||||||||||||
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