Etaples
Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. During the First World War, the area
around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement
camps and hospitals. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes
and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross
hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In
September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the QMAAC
convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,773 Commonwealth burials
of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Some 35 of these burials
are unidentified. One
man of the North Irish Horse, Private T. Wright, is buried
here. The location of his grave is shown on the CWGC cemetery plan below. Image
kindly provided by Richard Evans from his website Nelson, Glamorgan and the
Great War http://www.nelson-ww1-memorial.org.uk.
Information and cemetery
plan sourced from Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org.
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