Tank Cemetery, Guemappe
Guemappe was captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on 23 and 24 April 1917, twelve days after Wancourt. The village was lost on 23 March 1918 and retaken by the Canadian Corps on the following 26 August.
Tank Cemetery was begun by fighting units in April 1917 and used by fighting units and field ambulances until June. It was damaged by shell-fire in 1918.
The cemetery contains 219 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 25 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known to be buried among them. Six graves in Row A, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words: "Buried near this spot". Row F is one big grave in which 64 men of the 7th Cameron Highlanders are buried.
The pictures shown here were taken on 16 July 2024 using a Sony A7R IV camera body and a Sony FE16-35mm GM lens.
The music is Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C Major (BWV 846).
The trench map is courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.
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