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Wicres Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof

Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

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Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais 59134 France

Coordinates: 50.57043, 2.86803
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Also known as the German Cemetery in Wicres Village. Care should be taken not to confuse it with the nearby German cemetery Wicres Route de la Bassée.

The cemetery was established in September 1915 by the preußischen Infanterie Regiment Nr.13 (1.westfälisches; Münster) for those who died in the fighting in the area between La Bassée and Neuve-Chapelle. It contains a monument to commemorate the 25 September 1915 when the regiment lost 210 men as a result of a mine blast. Successive regiments stationed in the area also buried their dead here and the cemetery was later extended by the French authorities to contain German war dead reburied from cemeteries in 12 surrounding areas. Altogether 2824 German servicemen are buried in the cemetery in individual graves but 128 remain unknown. There is also a grave of a Russian prisoner of war from the same era.

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