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LE TOUQUET-PARIS PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
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Pas De Calais

​France


Location Information

Le Touquet is about 5 kilometres east of Etaples.

From Etaples take the D39 to Le Touquet. Turn right following the signs for the Hippodrome and airport. 400 metres after the junction on the D39 take the right fork onto the Avenue du Gulf, after 600 metres turn left onto Avenue de Picardie. Continue for another 1.3 kilometres crossing 2 mini roundabouts and turn right onto Avenue du 18 Juin. The Communal Cemetery is 200 metres further along on the right hand side. The Commonwealth plot is near the entrance.


Historical Information

The Duchess of Westminister's Hospital (No.1 B.R.C.S) was at Le Touquet from October, 1914, to July, 1918, and the British graves in the Communal Cemetery were made from that hospital.

The Communal Cemetery contains a number of French and Italian military graves, and two British Plots in the corner. A wooden obelisk in memory of the British dead was erected in the cemetery by the Lifeboat men of the commune.

There are now 142 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war here. All of whom died in the period November, 1914, to April, 1916.

The British Plots cover an area of 495 square metres.

Casualty Details: United Kingdom 140,  Canada 3.  Total Burials: 143.
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Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos

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27738 Private
H. Albert Barrington 
15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
25th May 1915, aged 32.
Plot I. C. 21.

Husband of Alice May Barrington, of 51, Bartlett Avenue, Toronto.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Greater Love Hath No Man Than That He Lay Down His Life For His Loved Ones."

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2381 Private
Herbert Dove
1st/6th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
3rd August 1915, aged 29.
​Plot II. A. 27.

Brother of Mr. W. W. Dove, of 18, Sun St., Eastburn, Keighley.



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1450 Private
M. M. Fuchsbalg
1st Bn. Honourable Artillery Company
23rd February 1915, aged 26.
Plot I. A. 33.

Son of Edward Fuchsbalg, of 21, Trinity Rise, Brixton, London.


His headstone bears the inscription; "If This Will Be A Better World His Life Has Not Been Sacrificed In Vain."



​​​​​Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

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Convalescent troops at Paris-Plage watching baseball, 18 May 1918. © IWM (Q 11499)
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British soldiers giving a piggyback to French children on the beach at Paris Plage while on leave, 18 May 1918. © IWM (Q 11483)
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Voluntary Aid Detachment, Order of St John (VAD) nurses and convalescents on a ward in the Duchess of Westminster's (No.1 Red Cross) Hospital at Le Touquet (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage), 18th June 1917. © IWM (Q 2404)
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Duchess of Westminster's (No.1 Red Cross) Hospital at Le Touquet (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage)

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