Op Piper - Arras Fabourg Cemetery

 The Faubourg d' Amiens Cemetery contains over 2,650 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 10 of which are unidentified. The adjacent Arras Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. Within the cemetery is the Arras Flying Services Memorial that commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave.

Arras was the scene of fighting in May 1940, and there are 8 WW2 graves, 3 soldiers and 4 airmen from the United Kingdom and 1 entirely unidentified casualty.

FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS

Faubourg d' Amiens Cemetery and Memorial

Faubourg d' Amiens Cemetery

Faubourg d' Amiens Cemetery and Air Services Memorial

Air Services Memorial

In Plot V Row F, there are four Royal Field Artillery graves together. They belong to four Gunner Officers who lost their lives on 19th May 1917. They were killed whilst serving with 40 Brigade Royal Field Artillery when a German 5.9-inch shell hit the Officers Mess.

Faubourg d' Amiens Cemetery
40 Brigade RFA Officers