Chérisy

Chérisy (French pronunciation: [ʃeʁizi]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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

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 was in the retaking of Chérisy that Major Georges Philias Vanier, the future GOC of the Royal 22e Régiment and Governor General of Canada (1959–1967) was wounded, as a result of which his leg was amputated.

English émigré to Canada, Private Alfred S. Loose was killed on 28 September 1918, aged 25 years.