The Scottish War Graves Project

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

No. of Identified Casualties: 886

CWGC Information:

Roclincourt is a village a little to the east of the road from Arras to Lens. Take the N17 from Arras until the junction of this road and the D60 (first CWGC sign here). Travel along the D60 into Roclincourt village, for approximately one kilometre, to a right turn (direction St Nicholas). Take this road for approximately 175 metres to a lane on the right. The cemetery lies 100 metres away at the foot of this lane.

The French troops who held this front before March 1916 made a military cemetery (now removed), on the south-west side of which the present Commonwealth cemetery was made. It was begun by the 51st (Highland) and 34th Divisions in April 1917, and contains many graves of 9 April, the first day of the Battles of Arras. It continued in use, as a front-line cemetery, until October 1918 and after the Armistice graves, mostly from the battlefield north of Roclincourt, were brought into Plot IV, Row F. Roclincourt Military Cemetery contains 916 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 32 of them unidentified. There are also four German war graves. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Originally, the cemetery contained a wooden memorial erected by the 22nd Royal Fusiliers to one officer and 27 N.C.O.'s and men who fell in action at Oppy in April and May 1917.

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Photograph kindly supplied by War Graves Project Member 'Boyentrant'.

Name: MUNRO
Initials: W A S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st/7th
Age: 19
Date of Death: 26/05/1918
Service No: S/41443
Additional information: Son of G.orge and Isabella Mary Munro, of 41, Industry St., Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. D. 3.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

Listed on Kirkintilloch Civic Memorial, see: http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=119&highlight=kirkintilloch&mforum=warmemscot

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: ADAMS, JAMES ALISON WILSON
Initials: J A W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: "A" Coy. 9th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Additional information: Son of Robert and Marion Adams, of 18, Belgrave Rd., Corstorphine, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 41.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: ALEXANDER, EDWARD
Initials: E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/8th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 302395
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Alexander, of 8, Auchmountain Rd., Greenock.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 5.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: AUCHINLECK, PETER CAMERON
Initials: P C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: "C" Coy. 1st/8th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 303091
Additional information: Son of David and Christina Auchinleck, of 23, Bridgend, Chryston, Glasgow. Native of Newhaven, Leith, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 11.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BARRIE, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 39
Date of Death: 02/07/1917
Service No: 30379
Additional information: Son of Charles Barrie, of Kirton Bank, Forfar; husband of Margaret Cove Smith Barrie, of Manse Rd., Corstorphine, Midlothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 11.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BELL, JOSEPH
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Date of Death: 25/05/1918
Service No: S/21827
Additional Information: Place of birth, Rattray, Perthshire. (SNWM)
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. D. 19.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BERRY
Initials: H S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 201395
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 37.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BOW, ALBERT GEORGE
Initials: A G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: H.Q. Staff 1st/6th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 265264
Additional information: Son of Mrs. Mary Bow, of 14, Buchan St., Macduff, Banffshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 37.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BOWIE, FREDERICK W.
Initials: F W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 202799
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 34.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BOYLE, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 13th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 16/05/1918
Service No: 47892
Additional information: Son of John and the late Ann Smith Boyle, of 140, Park St., Plantation, Glasgow. Native of Ardrossan, Ayrshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. D. 3.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BRADSHAW, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st/6th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 26/05/1918
Service No: 267972
Additional information: Son of Allan and Jeanie Bradshaw, of Crossmill Farm, Barrhead, Glasgow. Native of Meadowfield, Corstorphine, Midlothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. D. 21.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BROWN, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 352331
Additional Information: Place of birth, Bo’ness, Linlithgowshire. (SNWM)
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 15.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BROWN, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 351768
Additional information: Son of John Brown, of High St., Gifford, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 31.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

jrah60 · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride

Name: BRUCE, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/6th Bn.
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 266829
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 30.
Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY