Etretat Churchyard Extension

Cemetery Details

Location Rue Colonel Raynal, Etretat, Seine-Maritime - Normandy, France
Co‑ordinates N49.70756, E0.212
Description

Location Information
Etretat is a small seaside town about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre. The Churchyard is on the D940 from Fecamp, and the Extension is on the south-east side of it, between the church and the railway.

History Information
In December 1914, No.1 General Hospital was established in Etretat and it remained there until December 1918. In July 1917, it was taken over by No.2 (Presbyterian USA) Base Hospital Unit, but it continued to operate as a British hospital. The first seven burials took place among the French civil graves but in February 1915, two plots were set aside for Commonwealth burials in the churchyard. These were filled by December 1916 and from then until December 1918, the extension was used. ETRETAT CHURCHYARD contains 264 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and one German grave. ETRETAT CHURCHYARD EXTENSION contains 282 First World War burials and four from the Second World War. There are also 12 German graves in the extension. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

 

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RAMSDEN, Wilfred Harold

Service number 6504
Corporal
13th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 1889

MACKAY, Hugh Gregory

Service number 2028
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Mar 1881

FOILAN, William

Service number 2395
Private
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1891

SHEPPARD, Arthur

Service number 6090
Private
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

MORIARTY, Francis Michael

Service number 6983
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

BENTE, Henry Clifton

Service number 3271
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Oct 1898

JACOBS, Clifford

Service number 1933A
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

GOODWILL, David

Service number 7987
Private
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 1899

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