Chérisy

Not to be confused with Cherisy, in the Eure-et-Loir department.

Chérisy
Chérisy
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Chérisy
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Croisilles
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Sud Arrageois
Mayor	Roland Delobelle (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	52–98 m (171–322 ft) (avg. 66 m/217 ft)
Land area1	6.29 km2 (2.43 sq mi)
Population2	212  (1999)
- Density	34 /km2 (88 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62223/ 62128
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 50°14′06″N 2°54′46″E / 50.235°N 2.91277777778°E / 50.235; 2.91277777778

Chérisy is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A small farming village located 9 miles (15 km) southeast of Arras on the D9 junction with the D38 road.

Population

Historical population of Chérisy

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
176	188	175	189	209	212
From the year 1962 on: population without double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of Saint-Vaast, rebuilt, like most of the village after the ravages of World War I.
• World War I cemetery.

World War I

Chérisy village, south-east of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais, France, was captured by the 18th Division on 3 May 1917, but lost the same night. It then remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918. It was in the retaking of Chérisy that Major Georges Philias Vanier, the future GOC of the Royal 22^e Régiment and Governor General of Canada (1959–1967) was wounded, as a result of which his leg was amputated.
Quebec Cemetery, Chérisy.
Quebec Cemetery was made by fighting units. Those buried there, mainly men of the 22nd and 24th Battalions Canadian Infantry (both from Quebec), were killed between 26 August and 28 September 1918. Quebec Cemetery contains 195 First World War burials, 12 of them unidentified. English émigré to Canada, Private Alfred S. Loose was killed on 28 September 1918, aged 25 years. The cemetery was designed by G. H. Goldsmith.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• The British Commonwealth cemetery at Chérisy
• Chérisy on the Quid website (French)