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| | Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus, Pas de Calais, France |
 | | "Nine Elms" was the name given by the Army to a group of trees 460 metres East of the Arras-Lens main road, between Thelus and Roclincourt. |
 | | The cemetery was begun, after the capture of Vimy Ridge, by the burial in what is now Plot I, Row A of 80 men of the 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion, who fell on the 9th April, 1917; and this and the next row were filled by June, 1917. |
 | | The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were moved to Nine Elms Military Cemetery:- Arras Road Cemetery, Thelus,(CA39)* on the roadside a little North of Nine Elms Cemetery. |
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