Wimereux Communal Cemetery
The town of Wimereux, France was the headquarters of the Queen Mary's Army Auxilliary Corps during the First World War and in 1919 became the General Headquarters of the British Army.
From October 1914 onwards, Boulogne and Wimereux formed an important hospital centre and until June 1918, the medical units at Wimereux used the this cemetery for burials, the southern half was designated for Commonwealth graves, although a few burials were made among the civilian half of the cemetery.
By June 1918, the commonwealth half of the cemetery was filled, and subsequent burials from the hospitals at Wimereux were at the military cemetery at Terlincthun.
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Grave marker for Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, who wrote the celebrated poem, In Flanders Fields
Wimereux Communal Cemetery contains 2,847 First World War burials, two of them unidentified.
Among these First World War burials is Lt.-Col. John McCrae, author of the poem, In Flanders Fields.
The cemetery also contains 14 Second World War burials, six of them unidentified.
The Commonwealth section of the cemetery was designed by Charles Holden
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