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WILLEMS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.62909, Longitude: 3.2472

Willems Communal Cemetery
Image above © Johan Pauwels

​Location Information

Willems is a small village about 13 kilometres east of the centre of Lille, and 2 kilometres west of the border with Belgium. It is on the D90 between Roubaix and Chereng just north of the A27 motorway.
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From the centre of the village take the D64 towards Belgium: the cemetery is on the right hand side of the road. There are 11 casualties from the Great War buried here.
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Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
Willems Communal Cemetery
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Second Lieutenant
John Denham Baxter
18th Bn. 
London Regiment (London Irish Rifles)
7th November 1918.




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    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France in Alphabetical Order
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      • SEINE-ET-MARNE
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      • OTHER FRENCH DEPARTMENTS
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