Terlincthun British Cemetery

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY

Wimille

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Terlincthun British Cemetery is situated on the northern outskirts of Boulogne. From Calais follow the A16 to Boulogne, come off at Junction 3 and follow the D96E for Wimereux Sud. Continue on this road for approximately 1 kilometre when the Cemetery will be found on the left hand side of the road. However, it should be noted that the entrance to the cemetery is in St Martin's Road, which is the road on the left immediately after the cemetery.

The first rest camps for Commonwealth forces were established near Terlincthun in August 1914 and during the whole of the First World War, Boulogne and Wimereux housed numerous hospitals and other medical establishments. The cemetery at Terlincthun was begun in June 1918 when the space available for service burials in the civil cemeteries of Boulogne and Wimereux was exhausted. It was used chiefly for burials from the base hospitals, but Plot IV Row C contains the graves of 46 RAF personnel killed at Marquise in September 1918 in a bombing raid by German aircraft. In July 1920, the cemetery contained more than 3,300 burials, but for many years Terlincthun remained an 'open' cemetery and graves continued to be brought into it from isolated sites and other burials grounds throughout France where maintenance could not be assured. During the Second World War, there was heavy fighting in the area in 1940. Wimille was devastated when, from 22 - 25 May, the garrison at Boulogne fought a spirited delaying action covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. There was some fighting in Wimille again in 1944. The cemetery suffered considerable damage both from the shelling in 1940 and under the German occupation.

Shot at Dawn: Second Lieutenant J. H. Patterson, 3rd Bn. Essex Regiment, attached 1st Bn. Executed for murder 24/09/1918, plot 4. B. 48.

Casualty Details: UK 3859, Canada 326, Australia 114, New Zealand 32, South Africa 42, India 4, Germany 192,

Serbia 3, Russia 4, U.S.A. 3, Poland 1, Total Burials: 4580

Those with awards buried within this cemetery:

BANKS, Lt. H. M.C. 102nd Bn. Canadian Inf. (Central Ontario Regt.). Died 17th October 1918. 5. F. 36.

WAKE, Maj. H. St. A. M.V.O. 2nd Bn. 8th Ghurka Rifles. Died 30th October 1914. VII. A. 8.

This information collated by Barry Cuttell

More views of this cemetery

135187 Driver

Luther Hudson

"A" Battery, 11th Bde.

Royal Field Artillery

Died of Pneumonia 29/11/1918, aged 25.

Husband of Winifred Hudson, of 821, Manchester Rd., Bradford, Yorks.

Plot XII. A. 4.

Pictures courtesy of Raymond Hudson, grandson of this soldier

203205 Corporal

Victor Albert Brown

1st/5th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment

16/10/1918, aged 21

Son of Joseph Rose Brown and Elizabeth Brown, of 77, North Rd., Wolverhampton.

Plot V. F. 4.

His brother Pte Joseph George Brown 36182 was also KIA on April 10th 1918, aged 19, whilst serving in the 4th South Staffs, remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial Panel 6.

Picture courtesy of Dave Shaw