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FORGES-LES-EAUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Seine-Maritime

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.61551, Longitude: 1.5398

Location Information

Forges-les-Eaux is a small town in the Department of the Seine-Inferieure. The Communal Cemetery and Extension is west of the main road to Neufchatel.
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History Information

The commune contained, during the War, No. 8 Veterinary Hospital and some French medical units; and the Extension (which was included in the Communal Cemetery after the War) was made by the latter. At the North and South ends of the COMMUNAL CEMETERY are the graves of five soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914-17. The EXTENSION contained originally over 200 French, French Colonial and German graves. Two soldiers of the British West Indies Regiment and one from Canada, who died in 1918-19 are buried close to the old boundary of the Communal Cemetery.

Communal Cemetery

Total Burials: 20.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 5. 

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 13.

World War Two Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 2.


Extension

Total Burials: 3.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2 (British West Indies), Canada 1. Total 3.


Burial Details


116121 Lance Sergeant William Henry Johnson, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion, 27th August 1918, aged 38.
Son of Phillip Johnson and his wife, Emily Emptage, of Canada.


8436 Private N. Marcus, 3rd Bn. British West Indies Regiment, died 9th January 1919.

6348 Private R. Sherwood, 3rd Bn. British West Indies Regiment, died 14th February 1919, aged 23. Son of William Sherwood, of John's Hall, Fellowship, Jamaica.
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Forges-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery Extension
Forges-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery Extension
Forges-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery Extension
Forges-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery Extension
Forges-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery Extension

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