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Frank Arthur Edward Heming
World War I
Frank Heming was the
husband of my grand aunt, Florence (Richardson) Heming. My grandfather, Flo's brother, also volunteered for the war in Canada
but was rejected for having too many children. After he immigrated to
the US, he tried once again, but was told that fathers were not needed.
~ In Memory of ~
F A E HEMING
Private, 916797
3rd Bn., Canadian Infantry
(Central Ontario Regt.)
who died on
Friday, 30th August 1918
at the Capture of Orix Trench,
Arras, France.
Commemorative Information
VALLEY CEMETERY,
VIS-EN-ARTOIS
Pas de Calais, France
Grave A. 10.
Valley Cemetery lies
south of Vis-en-Artois, some 12 kilometres south-east of Arras on the
D939 road. From Vis-en-Artois take the D9 towards Cherisy for 1.5
kilometres, then take a track towards the cemetery on your left.
Valley Cemetery was
begun on the 31st August, 1918, when the 3rd Canadian Infantry
Battalion buried, in the big grave in Row A, which is now
numbered 8-11, 31
of their number who had fallen the previous day in the capture of Orix
Trench. Ten further burials were made in Row A during the early
part of September; and in 1924-25 Rows B and C were added, by the
concentration of graves from the battlefields and from Thilloy German
Cemetery. There are now nearly 70, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated
in this site. Of these, over a quarter are unidentified and a memorial
is erected to a soldier from the United Kingdom, buried in Thilloy
German Cemetery, whose grave could not be found on concentration. The
Cemetery covers an area of 275 square metres with its approaches and is
enclosed by a rubble and flint wall. THILLOY GERMAN CEMETERY was about
a kilometre North of Ligny-Thilloy village, close to the Albert-Bapaume
road. It was a Dressing Station cemetery, containing the graves of four
Australian soldiers, three from the United Kingdom, and about 300
Germans.
That mark our place;
and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Colonel John McCrae, a
Canadian physician, also died in France, the same year as Frank Heming,
a casualty of World War I. In 1916 McCrae was Chief of Medical Services
at a Canadian Hospital in France, where wounded soldiers from Arras
were received. His poem remains one of the most memorable war poems. It
is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres Salient in the
spring of 1915. Poppies sprout best in newly cultivated soil and, when
this was written, the entire Western Front was covered with poppies
blooming as never before seen on the freshly dug graves.
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