Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Location
Region : Dury, Pas-de-Calais, France
Latitude : 50.238986
Lontitude : 2.998387
CWGC Link : 24900
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road (D939) from Arras to Cambrai. Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury. 300 metres after the Memorial the Cemetery is signposted to the left towards Dury village. It is located in open fields, and is approached along an unsurfaced track about 500 metres long

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Magherafelt Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait Portrait L/Corp Wilson, Humphrey 139710 Canadian Infantry 02/09/1918 Grave II-A-1
Cemetery History
In August, 1918, Dury was behind the German defence system known as the Drocourt-Queant line; but on the 2nd September this line was broken by the Canadian and XVII Corps, and Dury village and the hill just South of it (Mont Dury, or Dury Ridge) were captured. The Mill (Moulin Damiens) stood beside the road from Dury to Villers-les-Cagnicourt, and was destroyed.
The cemetery was begun by Canadian units on the 5th September, 1918, and closed sixteen days later. There are now 337 First World War casualties buried in this cemetery. Of these14 are unidentified. This cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.