The Royal Canadian Regiment and
The First World War - 1914-1919
Beehive Cemetery (Willerval)
Willerval is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 10 kilometres north-east of Arras. Beehive Cemetery is 1 kilometre north of the village and 600 metres by the footpath from the west side of the D50E road to Mericourt in a place called Lorgette.
For more information - CWGC
Royal Canadians buried at the Beehive Cemetery (Willerval) are listed below.
| Regt. No. | Rank. | Given Names. | Surname. | Date of Death. | Remarks. | CVWM/CWGC Link; Grave Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 478732 | Pte | Hubert | AUCOIN | 04-Oct-17 | CVWM C. 13. | |
| 733573 | Pte | Raymond | ENNIS | 22-Sep-17 | CVWM Sp. Mem. | |
| 715027 | Pte | Harry Ernest | WYNN | 04-Oct-17 | CVWM C. 12. |
The CWGC description of how to get to the cemetery is the understatement of the millennium !!
It is on a long rutted track past a farm and then a good walk up to the cemetery itself, once you have arrived though it is a sad, beautiful but lonely spot, I would guess rarely visited. We decided to exit through the fields in front of us and found the track much better but at one stage we thought it was a dead end, but it turned sharply past some small factory-type buildings and led onto a main road.
The RCR graves are right under the trees so not the best photos I have ever taken but readable.
Peter
Photos by Peter Bennett, a member of the Great War Forum
Pro Patria
• Rogue Papers
• Tactical Primers
• The Regimental Library
• Quotes
• Battle Honours
• Perpetuation of the CEF
• The RCR in the First World War
• Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War
• Badges of The RCR
• A Miscellany
• The Senior Subaltern
• The Frontenac Times
• Site Map
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The RCR in the Great War
War Diary
Battle Honours
Battle Bars and The RCR
The RCR Battle Bar Ledger (pdf)
Honours and Awards
Roll of Honour
Prisoners of War
Cemetery List
Cemetery Map
Courts Martial
Officers
RSMs of The RCR (1914-1919)
NCOs and Soldiers
An Officer's Diary (1914-1918)
Recollections of a Nonagenerian (R. England) (1916-1919)
On to Bermuda (1914-15)
Overseas with The Royals (1915)
Regimental History Pamphlet (1917)
Amiens (1918)
Cambrai (1918)
Monchy-le-Preux (1918)
Badges - Signs of the Times
Under-aged Soldiers in The RCR
Not All Were Volunteers; The RCR and the Military Service Act
Sentenced to Death by Court Martial
The 7th Trench Mortar Battery
A Regimental Goat
Regiment and Family, Bermuda 1914-15
