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Dunkirk Town Cemetery

Memorials	:	2
Location	:	Dunkirk, Departement du Nord, France
Coordinate	:	51.0303535, 2.3896790
Description	:	Dunkirk is located in the department of Nord in the extreme northern tip of France approximately 12 kilometres from the Belgian border. Dunkirk Town Cemetery is at the south-eastern corner of the town, immediately south of the canal and on the road to Veurne (Furnes) in Belgium. During the First World War Dunkirk was a major port of debarkation for the British Expeditionary Force in September and October 1914. Throughout WWI it was a seaplane base and later an American Naval Air Service base. The town was also a French hospital centre and the 8th Canadian Stationary Hospital was... Read More	Dunkirk is located in the department of Nord in the extreme northern tip of France approximately 12 kilometres from the Belgian border. Dunkirk Town Cemetery is at the south-eastern corner of the town, immediately south of the canal and on the road to Veurne (Furnes) in Belgium. During the First World War Dunkirk was a major port of debarkation for the British Expeditionary Force in September and October 1914. Throughout WWI it was a seaplane base and later an American Naval Air Service base. The town was also a French hospital centre and the 8th Canadian Stationary Hospital was there from November 1918 to April 1919. Although an estimated 7,500 shells and bombs fell on the town during the war, ship building and other port activities continued. During the Second World War, Dunkirk was the scene of the historic evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France in May 1940. Dunkirk Town Cemetery contains 460 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, ten of them unidentified. The graves are situated in Plots 1 to 3 in the public part of the cemetery to the right of the main entrance, and in Plots 4 and 5 of the Commonwealth War Graves section adjacent to the Dunkirk Memorial. Of the 793 Second World War burials, 213 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 58 soldiers known to be buried among them. These graves are in Plots 1 and 2 of the section by the Dunkirk Memorial. There are also Czech, Norwegian and Polish war graves within the Commonwealth section, and war graves of other nationalities will be found elsewhere within the cemetery. The Dunkirk Memorial stands a the entrance to the Commonwealth War Graves section of Dunkirk Town Cemetery. It commemorates more than 4,500 casualties of the British Expeditionary Force who died in the campaign of 1939-40 and who have no known grave. The memorial was designed by Philip Hepworth. The engraved glass panel depicting the evacuation was by John Hutton.

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Latitude: 51.0303535
Longitude: 2.3896790

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