Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, Nord, France.

Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, Nord, France.

Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, Nord, France. It was not until the German offensive of April 1918, by which Merville was overwhelmed and the German line brought past it along the Lys nearly as far as St. Venant, that Thiennes became a place of British burials. On the 10th of that month the first death occurred in the 13th Field Ambulance (belonging to the 5th Division) during its service at Tannay, and thenceforward until the first week in August 5th Division units carried out almost all the burials in Tannay British Cemetery. Row D of Plot II contains only men of the 1st East Surreys who died in May; Rows D and E of Plot IV only men of the 2nd K.O.S.B. who died on the 28th (or in one case the 30th) June; and Row G of Plot IV only men of the 14th Royal Warwicks who died on the 8th July. In Rows C, D and E of Plot V the 61st (South Midland) Division made the majority of the graves, in the middle weeks of August. Thiennes saw fierce fighting once again in 1940 when it was at the southern end of the area occupied by the British Expeditionary Force during the withdrawal to Dunkirk. The cemetery now contains 363 First World War burials and 18 from the Second World War. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

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    Born 1895

    Died 1918

    British Army 81506 Private Machine Gun Corps 5th Battalion

    British Army 6473 Private East Yorkshire Regiment

  • Profile picture for Stephen John Sears

    Born 1883

    Died 1918

    British Army 4960 Lance Corporal Royal West Kent Regiment

    British Army 4960 Corporal Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for James Arthur Sparrow

    Born 1893

    Died 1918

    British Army 271555 Private Hertfordshire Yeomanry

    British Army 41054 Private Norfolk Regiment 1st Battalion

    British Army 271555 Private Bedfordshire Regiment 5th Reserve Battalion

  • Profile picture for Bert Henry Daft

    Born 1891

    Died 1918

    British Army 326201 Private Worcestershire Regiment

    British Army 50208 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 16th Battalion

    British Army 326201 Private Worcestershire Regiment 10th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Joseph Harding

    Died 1918

    British Army 49361 Corporal Cheshire Regiment

    British Army 49361 Corporal Cheshire Regiment 1st Battalion

    British Army 3527 Corporal Cheshire Regiment 2nd/7th Battalion