Highland Cemetery, Roclincourt, France

The Highland Cemetery at Roclincourt, France, is in a village a little to the east of the road from Arras to Lens. 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.

Photographs in this section taken by Morag Sutherland, Brora, Sutherland.

See also

Sgt. John Bannerman

Angus Mackay

Peter Gordon

Charles and John Bannerman

Cpl. Charles Gray Bannerman 1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders was born 9th June 1891 at Backies, Golspie, son of Hugh and Margaret (nee Murray) Bannerman.

Charles, a regular soldier, served in India and shortly after the outbreak of the war he was transferred with his regiment to France.  Charles who died on 26th September, 1915, at the Battle of Loos, has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Loos Memorial. He is also named on the Golspie War Memorial. Medals Victory British and 1914 star.
 
His brother Sergeant John Bannerman, 6th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders was born in 1894 at Backies. On  Monday 9th April 1917 aged 25 years, he was killed during the Battle of Arras and is buried in the Highland Cemetery, Roclincourt, Pas de Calais, France.  He is also commemorated on Golspie War Memorial.

Information supplied by family members and with the kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Angus Mackay, Skerray, Tongue

Angus Mackay, Skerray, Tongue – buried in the Highland Cemetery, Roclincourt, Somme

photographed in 2007 by Morag Sutherland, Brora, Sutherland.

See also Skerray Memorial