Étaples Military Cemetery

Étaples Military Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1914-18, 1940
Location50°32′07″N 1°37′21″E / 50.53528°N 1.62250°E / 50.53528; 1.62250
near 
Étaples, Pas-de-Calais
Designed bySir Edwin Lutyens
Total burialsOver 11,500
Unknowns
73
Burials by nation
  • UK – 8819
  • Canada – 1145
  • Australia – 464
  • New Zealand – 260
  • South Africa – 68
  • India – 17
  • Germany – 658
Burials by war
First World War – 10773
Second World War – 119
Official nameFunerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
TypeCultural
Criteriai, ii, vi
Designated2023 (45th session)
Reference no.1567-PC13
Statistics source:

Étaples Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Étaples, near Boulogne on the north-west coast of France. The cemetery holds over 11,500 dead from both World War I and World War II.

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