St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen

Cemetery Details

Location Rouen, Departement de la Seine-Maritime - Haute-Normandie, France
Co‑ordinates N49.41035, E1.06698
Description

Location Information
St Sever Cemetery and St. Sever Cemetery Extension are located within a large communal cemetery situated on the eastern edge of the southern Rouen suburbs of Le Grand Quevilly and Le Petit Quevilly. If approaching Rouen from the north, head for the centre of town and cross over the river Seine, following signs for Caen. Follow this route until you get to the 'Rond Point des Bruyeres' roundabout (next to the football stadium), then take the first exit into the Boulevard Stanislas Girardin. The cemetery is 150 metres down this road on the left. If approaching Rouen from the south, follow the N138 (Avenue des Canadiens) towards the centre of town. At the 'Rond Point des Bruyeres' roundabout (next to the football stadium), take the fourth exit into the Boulevard Stanislas Girardin. The cemetery is 150 metres down this road on the left. If arriving on foot, the easiest option is to take the N°7 bus, which runs from Rouges Terres in the north of the city, through the centre (several stops, including the Hôtel de Ville), to Zénith Park Expo in the south. From the city centre, take the bus for Zénith Park Expo, alighting at the Rond-point des Bruyères (sports stadia). From the roundabout, walk WNW into Boulevard Stanislas Girardin. The cemetery entrance is 150 metres down this road on the left.

History Information
During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city. Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension, where the last burial took place in April 1920. During the Second World War, Rouen was again a hospital centre and the extension was used once more for the burial of Commonwealth servicemen, many of whom died as prisoners of war during the German occupation. The cemetery extension contains 8,348 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (ten of them unidentified) and in Block "S" there are 328 from the Second World War (18 of them unidentified). There are also 8 Foreign National burials here. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

A link to the CWGC site is St Sever Extension, Rouen (www.cwgc.org)

 

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CALLAGHAN, Walter Leslie James

Service number 2539
Private
54th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HORE, Robert William

Major
4th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 21 Nov 1886

SHELDON, Walter Claude

Service number 2163
Lieutenant
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Apr 1895

HILL, Arthur Samuel

Service number 3305
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

GOUGH, John Myles

Service number 3492A
Private
36th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

WARNE-SMITH, Waldo Esmond

Service number 277
Lieutenant
6th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

TRAHAIR, Henry

Service number 2819
Private
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1889

PATTON, James

Service number 477
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Nov 1894

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