Ecoivres Military Cemetery

This cemetery is really the extension of the communal cemetery, where the French army had buried over 1,000 men. The 46^th (North Midland) Division took over the extension with this part of the line in March 1916, and their graves are in Rows A to F of Plot I. Successive divisions used the French military tramway to bring their dead in from the front line trenches and, from the first row to the last, burials were made almost exactly in the order of date of death.

The attack of the 25^th Division on Vimy Ridge in May 1916 is recalled in Plots I and II. The 47^th (London) Division burials (July to October 1916) are in Plot III, Rows A to H, and Canadian graves are an overwhelming majority in the rest of the cemetery, Plots V and VI containing the graves of men killed in the capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. Ecoivres Military Cemetery contains 1,728 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also 786 French and four German war graves. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

There are 165 Canadians buried here from the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

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Date modified:: 2024-01-24