Tilloy British Cemetery in Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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Coordinates: 50.27287, 2.81955
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Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines is a village 3 kilometres south-east of Arras, on the south side of the main road to Cambrai. Tilloy British Cemetery is south-east of the village on the north-east side of the road to Wancourt, the D37.

Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines was taken by Commonwealth troops on 9 April 1917, but it was partly in German hands again from March to August 1918. The cemetery was begun in April 1917 by fighting units and burial officers, and Rows A to H in Plot I largely represent burials from the battlefield. The remaining graves in Plot I, and others in the first three rows of Plot II, represent later fighting in 1917 and the first three months of 1918, and the clearing of the village in August 1918. These 390 original burials were increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in from a number of temporary battlefield cemeteries in a wide area east of Arras.

The cemetery now contains 1642 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 611 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 14 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 11 men of the 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers buried in Tees Trench Cemetery No. 2, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.