Wormhout cemetery (French: Cimetière de Wormhout; Dutch: Begraafplaats van Wormhout) is a communal cemetery of Wormhout in the French department Nord. The site is located 700 metres north of the centre (municipal hall) at the Cours N4 du Cimetière.
| Wormhout cemetery | |
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Cimetière de Wormhout | |
 French civilian graves and two World War I British war graves | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  France |
| Coordinates | 50°53′22″N 02°27′58″E / 50.88944°N 2.46611°E |
| Find a Grave | Wormhout cemetery |
British war graves
edit| Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery | |
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| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
 Cross of Sacrifice and graves of the Second World War | |
| Used for those deceased | |
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A Commonwealth military burial site is located in the northeastern corner of the cemetery and includes 113 identified and 31 non-identified victims of the Second World War. These victims mainly died in May 1940 during the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk. Moreover, the site includes the Cross of Sacrifice.
Four British casualties of the First World War are buried between civilians' graves.
The graves are administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and are registered under Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery.
Graves
edit- Cyril Hugh Joseph Chichester-Constable [1] and James Edward Weeks Rance,[2] both majors at the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and Mervyn Ashley Edwards,[3] second lieutenant at the Royal Artillery, all decorated with the Military Cross (MC).
- John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne of the Royal Horse Guards (attd. 12th Royal Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps) and North Irish Horse who was killed in action on 23 May 1940.[4]
- W. T. H. Phillips, soldier at the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, executed for desertion.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "MAJOR CYRIL HUGH JOSEPH CHICHESTER-CONSTABLE". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "MAJOR JAMES EDWARD WEEKS RANCE". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "SECOND LIEUTENANT MERVYN ASHLEY EDWARDS". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Major CRICHTON, JOHN HENRY GEORGE". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ All executed Brits of the First World War were rehabilitated by Royal Decree on 8 November 2006 (article 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006), except those who were convicted of murder or mutiny.
- ^ "PRIVATE W T H PHILLIPS". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
External links
edit- The War Graves Photographic Project
- Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery on the website of the CWGC.
