CROIX-ROUGE MILITARY CEMETERY
Quaedypre
Nord
France
Location Information
Quaedypre is a village 12 kilometres south-east of Dunkerque and 4 kilometres south-south-east of Bergues, a town on the Dunkerque-Hazebrouck road.
The Military Cemetery is almost due south of Bergues and east of Croix-Rouge about 500 metres from the roundabout on the Dunkerque-Hazebrouck road and 200 metres north of the road to Hondschoote.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery with some difficulty.
The register is available in the Mairie from Monday to Friday from 8.30 to 12.00 and 13.30 to 17.30 and Saturday from 8.30 to 11.30
Historical Information
The 44th Casualty Clearing Station was posted at Bergues from May to October, 1918. The Military Cemetery was made in June-September, 1918.
In 1935 six soldiers belonging to the United Kingdom, were moved into the cemetery from HERZEELE CHURCHYARD.
There are now nearly 90, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.
The cemetery covers an area of 371 square metres and is enclosed (except on the road side) by a low stone rubble
wall.
Casualty Details: UK 87, Total Burials: 87
The cemetery was designed by G.H. Goldsmith
Quaedypre is a village 12 kilometres south-east of Dunkerque and 4 kilometres south-south-east of Bergues, a town on the Dunkerque-Hazebrouck road.
The Military Cemetery is almost due south of Bergues and east of Croix-Rouge about 500 metres from the roundabout on the Dunkerque-Hazebrouck road and 200 metres north of the road to Hondschoote.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery with some difficulty.
The register is available in the Mairie from Monday to Friday from 8.30 to 12.00 and 13.30 to 17.30 and Saturday from 8.30 to 11.30
Historical Information
The 44th Casualty Clearing Station was posted at Bergues from May to October, 1918. The Military Cemetery was made in June-September, 1918.
In 1935 six soldiers belonging to the United Kingdom, were moved into the cemetery from HERZEELE CHURCHYARD.
There are now nearly 90, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.
The cemetery covers an area of 371 square metres and is enclosed (except on the road side) by a low stone rubble
wall.
Casualty Details: UK 87, Total Burials: 87
The cemetery was designed by G.H. Goldsmith
G/62088 Private
William Baldwin
20th Bn. Middlesex Regiment
30th August 1918, aged 25.
Plot II. B. 2.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baldwin, of 19, King's Terrace, Burnley.
William Baldwin
20th Bn. Middlesex Regiment
30th August 1918, aged 25.
Plot II. B. 2.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baldwin, of 19, King's Terrace, Burnley.
S/24051 Lance Corporal
John Laurence Anderson Michie
7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
24th September 1918, aged 19.
Plot II. C. 17.
Son of James M. B. and Janet B. Anderson Michie, of 18, Church St., Arbroath, Forfarshire. A Technical College Student.
John Laurence Anderson Michie
7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
24th September 1918, aged 19.
Plot II. C. 17.
Son of James M. B. and Janet B. Anderson Michie, of 18, Church St., Arbroath, Forfarshire. A Technical College Student.
British troops outside their tents at their camp at Bergues, 31 August 1917. © IWM (Q 78155)
