HENIN-LIETARD COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
Location Information
Henin-Lietardis a town on the Arras-Carvin road (N.319) some 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east of Arras. It has a railway station on the Lens-Libercourt line which connects the Paris-Dunkirk and the Paris-Lille lines. There are bus services to and from Arras, Lille, Douai Lens and other towns in the district. The communal cemetery is in the north-eastern. part of the town, in the Rue de L'Egalite. On the eastern side of the main path, south of the Calvary, is a plot devoted to French soldiers and civilian victims of the 1939-1945 War. In this plot there is the grave of one British soldier.
Burial Details
5882995 Private William Alfred Gibbs, 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment, died 21st June 1940, aged 26. Son of Rose Anna Harriet Gibbs, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. INSCRIPTION.MAYBE IN A BETTER LAND WE'LL READ THE MEANING OF OUR TEARS AND WE'LL UNDERSTAND
Henin-Lietardis a town on the Arras-Carvin road (N.319) some 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east of Arras. It has a railway station on the Lens-Libercourt line which connects the Paris-Dunkirk and the Paris-Lille lines. There are bus services to and from Arras, Lille, Douai Lens and other towns in the district. The communal cemetery is in the north-eastern. part of the town, in the Rue de L'Egalite. On the eastern side of the main path, south of the Calvary, is a plot devoted to French soldiers and civilian victims of the 1939-1945 War. In this plot there is the grave of one British soldier.
Burial Details
5882995 Private William Alfred Gibbs, 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment, died 21st June 1940, aged 26. Son of Rose Anna Harriet Gibbs, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. INSCRIPTION.MAYBE IN A BETTER LAND WE'LL READ THE MEANING OF OUR TEARS AND WE'LL UNDERSTAND