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Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. 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 Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.
Etaples: Jasper Myers Richardson
Etaples: Jasper Myers Richardson
Etaples: Lt-Col W.R.A. Dawson DSO
Etaples: Lt-Col W.R.A. Dawson DSO
Etaples: Lt-Col A.M. Holdsworth
Etaples: Lt-Col A.M. Holdsworth
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
Etaples Military Cemetery
The cemetery contains 10,769 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The cemetery, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Etaples Military Cemetery in the snow 1919
| Royal Field Artillery |
584
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Royal Engineers |
302
|
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| Royal Garrison Artillery |
271
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Northumberland Fusiliers |
258
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|
| Machine Gun Corps |
244
|
Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regt) |
243
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| Kings Liverpool Regt |
203
|
Gordon Highlanders |
199
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| West Yorkshire Regt |
188
|
Royal Scots (Lothian Regt) |
178
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| Seaforth Highlanders |
163
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Middlesex Regt |
156
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|
| Durham Light Inf |
153
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Royal Army Medical Corps |
142
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|
| Kings Royal Rifle Corps |
135
|
Manchester Regt |
135
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|
| Rifle Brigade |
128
|
Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regt) |
127
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| South Staffordshire Regt |
125
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Lincolnshire Regt |
125
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| Army Service Corps |
124
|
Lancashire Fusiliers |
117
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|
| Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
116
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Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regt) |
112
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|
| York and Lancaster Regt |
107
|
Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
103
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|
| Highland Light Infantry |
101
|
Queens (Royal West Surrey Regt) |
97
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|
| Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders |
96
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Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) |
94
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|
| Border Regt |
93
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East Yorkshire Regt |
92
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|
| Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards) |
91
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Essex Regt |
90
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|
| Royal Warwickshire Regt |
87
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Worcestershire Regt |
85
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| Hampshire Regt |
83
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Cheshire Regt |
81
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| Suffolk Regt |
81
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Loyal North Lancashire Regt |
79
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|
| Royal Lancaster Regt |
78
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Royal Berkshire Regt |
71
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| Kings Shropshire Light Inf |
71
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Grenadier Guards |
70
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|
| Ox and Bucks Light Infantry |
69
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Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) |
68
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| South Lancashire Regt |
66
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Bedfordshire Regt |
64
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| Gloucestershire Regt |
62
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Royal Sussex Regt |
62
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| Cameron Highlanders |
61
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Royal Army Service Corps |
61
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|
| Kings Own Scottish Borderers |
60
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Royal West Kent Regt (Queens Own) |
60
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|
| Devonshire Regt |
59
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East Lancashire Regt |
59
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| Leicestershire Regt |
55
|
Somerset Light Infantry |
53
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|
| Royal Scots Fusiliers |
52
|
19th Bn London Regt (St. Pancras) |
51
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|
| 1st Life Guards |
51
|
East Surrey Regt |
49
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|
| Buffs (East Kent Regt) |
48
|
South Wales Borderers |
48
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| Norfolk Regt |
48
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North Staffordshire Regt |
46
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|
| Welsh Regiment |
41
|
Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
39
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|
| Duke of Cornwall’s Light Inf |
38
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Coldstream Guards |
38
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|
| Irish Guards |
36
|
Royal Naval Division, Royal Marines Light Inf |
36
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|
| Honourable Artillery Coy |
35
|
Wiltshire Regt |
35
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|
| Royal Air Force |
34
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Dorsetshire Regt |
33
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|
| Scots Guards |
33
|
Northamptonshire Regt |
33
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|
| Royal Irish Rifles |
30
|
14th Bn London Regt (London Scottish) |
27
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|
| Tank Corps |
27
|
9th Bn London Regt (Queen Victorias Rifles) |
23
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|
| Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
21
|
1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
20
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|
| Royal Flying Corps |
19
|
12th Bn London Regt (The Rangers) |
17
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|
| Leinster Regt |
17
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Royal Irish Fusiliers |
17
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|
| 5th Bn London Regt (London Rifle Brigade) |
16
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22nd Bn London Regt (The Queens) |
16
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| Royal Horse Artillery |
16
|
Welsh Guards |
15
|
|
| Monmouthshire Regt |
15
|
Royal Irish Regt |
15
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|
| 16th Bn London Regt (Queens Westminster Rifles) |
14
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8th Bn London Regt (Post Office Rifles) |
14
|
|
| Royal Naval Division, Anson Bn |
14
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Royal Naval Division, Hood Bn |
13
|
|
| Army Veterinary Corps |
13
|
Labour Corps |
13
|
|
| 21st Bn London Regt (1st Surrey Rifles) |
13
|
4th Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
12
|
|
| 15th Bn London Regt (PWO, Civil Service Rifles ) |
12
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18th Bn London Regt (London Irish Rifles) |
12
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|
| Royal Munster Fusilier |
12
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17th Bn London Regt (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) |
11
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| Royal Naval Division, Howe |
11
|
1st Household Bn |
11
|
|
| Royal Guernsey Light Infantry |
10
|
28th Bn London Regt (Artists Rifles) |
10
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|
| 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales’s) |
10
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20th Bn London Regt (Blackheath & Woolwich) |
10
|
|
| 13th Bn London Regt (Kensington) |
9
|
Army Cyclist Corps |
9
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|
| Royal Naval Division, Drake Bn |
9
|
Royal Army Ordanance Corps |
8
|
|
| 3rd Bn London Regt ( Royal Fusiliers) |
7
|
23rd Bn London Reg |
7
|
|
| Royal Naval Division, Hawke Bn |
7
|
24th Bn London Regt (The Queens) |
7
|
|
| Cambridgeshire Regt |
7
|
Royal Naval Division, Nelson Bn |
7
|
|
| 2nd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
6
|
Military Police Corps |
6
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|
| 6th Bn London Regt (London Rifles) |
5
|
Hertfordshire Regt |
5
|
|
| 11th Hussars (Prince Alberts Own) |
5
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QMAAC |
5
|
|
| 2nd Dragoon (Royal Scots Greys) |
5
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7th Bn London Regt |
4
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|
| 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) |
4
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9th Lancers (Queens Royal) |
4
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|
| 1st Dragoons (Royal) |
4
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10th Hussars (Prince of Wales Own Royal) |
4
|
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| Royal Army Veterinary Corps |
4
|
Guards Machine Gun Regt |
4
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| Mercantile Marine, SS “Huntsmore” |
4
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6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) |
3
|
|
| Royal Horse Guards |
3
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YMCA |
3
|
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| 3rd Hussars (Kings Own) |
3
|
4th Hussars (Queens Own) |
3
|
|
| 2/3rd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
3
|
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) |
3
|
|
| 2/2nd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
3
|
Queens A Imperial Military Nursing Service |
3
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| Civilian |
3
|
Non Combattants Corps |
3
|
|
| Royal Naval Division, Medical Unit |
3
|
Connaught Rangers |
3
|
|
| 12th Lancers (Prince of Wales’s Royal ) |
3
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2/5th Bn London Regt (London Rifle Brigade) |
2
|
|
| 10th Bn London Regt (Hackney) |
2
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Royal Naval Division, Machine Gun Coy |
2
|
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| Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Artillery |
2
|
2/7th Bn London Regt |
2
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| 2/12th Bn London Regt (The Rangers) |
2
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Northamptonshire Yeomanry |
2
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|
| 2/4th Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
2
|
20th Hussars |
2
|
|
| 19th Hussars (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal ) |
2
|
2/6th Bn London Regt (London Rifles) |
2
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| Voluntary Aid Detachments |
2
|
Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars |
2
|
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| 6th Dragoons (Inniskilling) |
2
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2nd Life Guards |
2
|
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| 14th Hussars (Kings) |
1
|
Royal Navy HMS Victory |
1
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| Lincolnshire Yeomanry |
1
|
Royal Navy HMS President VI |
1
|
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| 1st Dragoon Guards (Kings Royal) |
1
|
18th Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own) |
1
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| Royal Navy HMS Eden |
1
|
17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) |
1
|
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| 7th Hussars (Queens Own) |
1
|
Lena Ashwell Concert Party |
1
|
|
| City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) |
1
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Chinese Labour Corps |
1
|
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| North Somerset Yeomanry |
1
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Army Pay Corps |
1
|
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| 13th Hussars ` |
1
|
Royal Hussars (Gloucestershire) |
1
|
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| Warwickshire Yeomanry |
1
|
Royal Naval Division, Divisional Train |
1
|
|
| 11th Bn London Regt (Finsbury Rifles) |
1
|
1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry |
1
|
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| Belgian Motorcyclist |
1
|
North Irish Horse |
1
|
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| 1/1st Huntingdonshire Cyclist Bn |
1
|
2nd Household Bn |
1
|
|
| Special List |
1
|
30th Bn London Regt |
1
|
|
| King Edwards Horse |
1
|
29th Bn London Regt |
1
|
|
| 34th Bn London Regt |
1
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Scottish Churches |
1
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| 23rd Lancers |
1
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Infantry Base Depot |
1
|
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| Leicestershire Yeomanry |
1
|
Chaplain to the Forces |
1
|
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| 1st King Edwards Horse |
1
|
1/1st East Riding Yeomanry |
1
|
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| 2/14th Bn London Regt (London Scottish) |
1
|
4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) |
1
|
|
| General List |
1
|
St John’s Ambulance Brigade |
1
|
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| 5th Lancers (Royal Irish) |
1
|
2/2nd Lovat Scouts |
1
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| Territorial Nursing Service |
1
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2/24th Bn London Regt (The Queens) |
1
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| 2/20th Bn London Regt (Blackheath & Woolwich) |
1
|
2/1st Sussex Yeomanry |
1
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| 2/1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers) |
1
|
3rd County of London (Sharpshooters) |
1
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| Identified UK Burials |
8752
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| Unidentified UK Burials |
33
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| Total UK Burials |
8785
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| Total Number of UK & Overseas Burials |
10744
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