Almost 800 photos of headstones in the First World War Canadian Cemetery No. 2 in Newville-St. Vaast, France are now available for free on Geneanet, the international genealogy database based in France.
The cemetery was established by the Canadian Corps after the successful storming of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, and some of those buried in the cemetery fell in that battle or died of wounds received there. The majority of the graves, however, were made later for the burial of the dead, whose remains were recovered from surrounding battlefields and from isolated graves which were transferred into the cemetery over a period of years after the war ended.
There are nearly 3,000 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery.
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