Zivy Crater in Thelus, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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Coordinates: 50.35471, 2.77811
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Zivy Crate is located approximately 1 mile west of the town of Thelus, on the south side of the D49 road to Neuville- St. Vaast. Zivy Crater was one of two mine craters (the other being the nearby Lichfield Crater) which were used by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer in 1917 for the burial of bodies found on the Vimy battlefield.

The crater is essentially a mass grave and contains 53 First World War burials, five of them unidentified. The names of the men buried in the crater, all of whom died in April or May 1917, are inscribed on panels fixed to the boundary wall. The cemetery was designed by W.H. Cowlishaw.