Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery
| Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
| File:Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery.JPG Le Trou Aid Post | |
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| For Allied war dead of World War I | |
| Established | October 1914 |
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| Designed by | Sir Herbert Baker |
| Total burials | 350+ |
Unknowns | 200+ |
| Burials by nation | |
| Statistics source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission[1] | |
The Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery is a World War I cemetery located in the commune of Fleurbaix, in the Pas-de-Calais departement of France, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the village of Fleurbaix on the D175 road (rue de Pétillon).[1]
British soldiers of the 19th Infantry Brigade made the earliest burials at the site in October 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres.[2] By the end of the war, the cemetery contained 123 graves.[2] This number nearly tripled after a postwar consolidation of war burial sites, when Le Trou Aid Post was expanded by the architect Sir Herbert Baker.[2]
Described as one of Baker's most sentimental works,[3] the rural site is surrounded by a narrow moat and sheltered by a grove of weeping willows. Visitors approach over a footbridge and enter through a delicate cottage-style gateway.[3]
The cemetery contains more than 350 graves, and over two hundred are unidentified.[2] The dead represent the battlefields of Ypres, Le Maisnil (October 1914), Aubers Ridge (May 1915), Loos (September–October 1915), and Fromelles (July 1916).[2]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery
- V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
- Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery at Find a GraveLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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