John William Luya

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. 280th Bde., Royal Field Artillery 839 Gunner 923297 Gunner 1914-1920 Catalogue Reference WO 372/12 JOHN WILLIAM LUYA Gunner 925297 "A" Bty. 28Oth Bde., Royal Field Artillery who died on Saturday 31 August 1918 . Age 23 . Additional Information: Son of David Cunningham Luya and Caroline Sophia Luya, of 8, Badlis Rd., Walthamstow, Essex. A Civil Servant (H.M. Customs and Excise). Cemetery: CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France Grave or Reference Panel Number: Ill. E. 20. Location: Croisilles is a village about 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. Croisilles British Cemetery lies off a track, approximately 300 metres long, to the south-east of the village on the road to Ecoust-St-Mein (D 9). Historical Infonnation: The 7th Division attacked Croisilles in March, 191 7, and took it on the 2nd April; it was lost on the 21st March, 1918, a nd recaptured by the 56th (London) Division, after heavy fighting, on the following 28th August. In the Cemetery Plots I and II, were made in April, 1917-March, 1918; the rest of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves from the neighbouring battlefields and from some smaller burial grounds. There are now over 1,000, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly half from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 14 United Kingdom soldiers buried among the m. Other special memorials record the names of United Kingdom soldiers, buried in HENDECOUR T -LES-CAGNICOUR T COMMUNAL CEMETERY in 1917, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The majority of the soldiers buried here belonged to the Guards, 7th and 21st Divisions. The cemetery covers an area of 4,466 square metres and is enclosed by a low stone rubble wall on three sides, and against the road by a stone curb.