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Cemetery Details

Location Boulogne-sur-mer, Cote d'Opal - Pas de Calais, France
Co‑ordinates N50.723216, E1.622356
Description

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See the CWGC page for full details HERE (www.cwgc.org)

Boulogne is a major French Atlantic seaport and its proximity to England meant that it became the major logistics and trans-shipment point for personnel and materiel during WW1 and in the early stages of WW2.

Hospitals were established in the area, and by necessity, cemeteries.

Boulogne Eastern is the largest of five cemeteries in the Boulougne area.  It consistes of a civil cemetery with a large CWGC annex.

Like other cemnteries in Eastern France it has sandy soil so the headstones are arranged horizontally.

If you have visited this cemetery, have a connection with it or have recent photogrpahs we would like to hear from you.  Email [email protected] for details.

 

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Names

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JAMES, Alick Thomas

Service number 2741
Sergeant
47th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

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ION, John

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Feb 1877

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GEE, George

Service number 1536
Lance Corporal
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 3 Jan 1897

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SAUNDERS, Samuel Archie

Service number 6831
Sergeant
14th Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 6 Feb 1886

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LARSEN, John Elias

Service number 3383
Private

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WALLACE, Ernest

Service number 447
Sapper
3rd Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 1891

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SHANNON, Colin McTaggart

Service number 415055
Flight Lieutenant
No. 76 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 13 Apr 1918

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JOSEY, Harold Gordon

Service number 2842
Private
49th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Jul 1890

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