Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery
Arques-la-Bataille, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
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Arques-la-Bataille is a small town 6 kilometres south-east of Dieppe on the Dieppe-Neufchatel-en-Bray Road. Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery is reached by taking the road from Martin-Eglise to St. Aubin-le-Cauf on the D51. The Cemetery will be found at the end of a winding country track which is indicated by a CWGC sign.
The South African Native Labour Corps came to France early in 1917 and No. 1 General Labour Hospital was established at its camp at Arques-la-Bataille. Most of the burials in the cemetery are of men of the Corps, many of whom died at the hospital and the cemetery also contains a memorial, erected by their comrades, to all men of the Corps who died in France.
There are now 381 burials of the First World War in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by J. R. Truelove.
Arques-la-Bataille is a small town 6 kilometres south-east of Dieppe on the Dieppe-Neufchatel-en-Bray Road. Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery is reached by taking the road from Martin-Eglise to St. Aubin-le-Cauf on the D51. The Cemetery will be found at the end of a winding country track which is indicated by a CWGC sign.
The South African Native Labour Corps came to France early in 1917 and No. 1 General Labour Hospital was established at its camp at Arques-la-Bataille. Most of the burials in the cemetery are of men of the Corps, many of whom died at the hospital and the cemetery also contains a memorial, erected by their comrades, to all men of the Corps who died in France.
There are now 381 burials of the First World War in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by J. R. Truelove.
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- Added: 8 Jan 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2245135
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