Vichte Military Cemetery

History Information (Source: CWGC) 

The railway station at Vichte was captured by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment on 20 October 1918, and the village by the 9th (Scottish) Division two days later. In Vichte Military Cemetery, Rows A and B and part of Row C in Plot I were made in October 1918, by the burial officers of the 9th and 31st Divisions, and the remainder of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields

Vichte Military Cemetery now contains 236 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 60 of them unidentified. There are also two Second World War burials, one of which is unidentified. The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.

 

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  • United Kingdom (169)
  • Canadian (8)

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  • Army (176)
  • Air Force (1)
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- Ralph Piggott Whittington-Ince, Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment, John Blackie, Lieutenant in the Royal Scots, Charles Ernest Phillips, Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment, Francis William Blake, Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry, Henry Mornington Fisher, Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery and Herbert Rufus Evlyn Irving, Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers were awarded the Military Cross. (MC).

- Company Sergeant Major W. Hillyard was twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and also received the Military Medal (DCM and Bar, MM).

- Sergeant Colin Campbell Gourlay and the Company Sergeant Major T.M. Forrester were awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM).

- Sergeants Archibald Angus Shaw, W. Laidlaw and Henry James Hartnell, Corporal John O'Rourke, Conductor C.G. Beaumont, the soldiers William P. King and R.F. Nightingale received the Military Medal (MM).