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Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Wimereux was the headquarters of the Queen Mary's Army Auxilliary Corps during the First World War and in 1919 it became the General Headquarters of the British Army. From October 1914 onwards, Boulogne and Wimereux formed an important hospital centre and until June 1918, the medical units at Wimereux used the communal cemetery for burials, the south-eastern half having been set aside for Commonwealth graves, although a few burial were also made among the civilian graves. By June 1918, this half of the cemetery was filled, and subsequent burials from the hospitals at Wimereux were made in the new military cemetery at Terlincthun. Wimereux Communal Cemetery contains 2,847, Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them unidentified. Buried among them is Lt.-Col. John McCrae, author of the poem "In Flanders Fields." There are also five French and a plot of 170 German war graves.
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Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 3749 Acting Colour Serjeant British West Indies Regiment
British Army 3749 Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army 2006 Private Royal Fusiliers 24th (2nd Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 17th battalion (city of lond Battalion
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Born 1877
Died 1917
British Army 629123 Private Canadian Infantry Battalion
British Army 629123 Private Canadian Infantry
Canadian Expeditionary Force 629123 Private 47th Battalion
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Born 1872
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major Canadian Army Medical Corps 1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps No 3 McGill General Hospital, Boulogne, France
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Born 1881
Died 1917
British Army S/23507 Private Rifle Brigade 3rd Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1916
British Army 37195 Bombardier 7th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
British Army 37195 Serjeant 7th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
British Army 37195 Serjeant Royal Horse Artillery 'I' Battery
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Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 1311 Private Gordon Highlanders
British Army 1311 Corporal Gordon Highlanders
British Army 1311 Lance Serjeant Gordon Highlanders
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Born 1895
Died 1915
Canadian Expeditionary Force 54
Canadian Expeditionary Force 54 Private Canadian Infantry 8th Battalion
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Born 1885
Died 1915
British Army 12160 Private King's Own Scottish Borderers 6th Battalion
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Born 1883
Died 1916
British Army 1729 Lance Corporal Seaforth Highlanders
British Army 1729 Sergeant Piper Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
British Army 1729 Serjeant Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Died 1914
British Army 9665 Private Royal Highlanders 1st Battalion
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Born 1878
Died 1917
British Army 241547 Private East Lancashire Regiment
British Army 3971 Private East Lancashire Regiment
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