Bois-Carre British Cemetery in Thelus, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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Coordinates: 50.35110, 2.81053
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The commune of Thélus is located on Vimy Ridge 7 kilometres north of Arras, and Bois-Carré British Cemetery is 1 kilometre east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire- Berthoult.

Thélus was captured by the Canadian Corps on the 9th April 1917, and it remained in Commonwealth hands until the end of the War. The commune contains Battle Memorials of the 1st Canadian Division and (at Les Tilleuls) the Canadian Artillery. Bois-Carré British Cemetery was begun by units of the 1st Canadian Division in April 1917 and used until the following June, and the 61 graves thus made are in Plot I. It was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the surrounding battlefields, and a Canadian soldier, accidentally killed in 1919, was buried in Plot I, Row F. During the 1939-40 War the cemetery was used in April 1940 by No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station.

There are now over 500 World War I and a small number of World War II casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly 60 from the WWI are unidentified and special memorials are erected to one soldier from the United Kingdom and one from Canada known to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of ten Canadian soldiers and three from the United Kingdom, buried in smaller cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire in later fighting.

The cemetery covers an area of 1898 square metres and is enclosed by a brick wall.