Thiant Communal Cemetery

• Country France
• Total identified casualties 69 Find these casualties
• Region Nord
• Identified casualties from First World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.30379, Longitude: 3.45809

Location information

Thiant is a village in the Department of the Nord, 8 kilometres south-west of Valenciennes, near the junction of the Ecaillon and the Escaut.

Visiting information

The commonwealth war graves can be found in a plot at the West end of the Communal Cemetery.

History information

There are now 72 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war commemorated in this site (mostly men of the 51st (Highland) Division from October-November 1918). Of these, 3 are unidentified.

The Commonwealth plot covers an area of 298 square metres.