Windmill British Cemetery

Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France
50°15′46″N 2°53′2″E / 50.26278°N 2.88389°E / 50.26278; 2.88389
near 
Monchy-le-Preux, France
Designed bySir Edwin LutyensTotal burials402
Unknowns
35Burials by nation
Allied Powers:
  • United Kingdom: 336
  • Canada: 65
  • South Africa: 1

Central Powers:

  • Germany: 1
Burials by war
World War I: 368

The Windmill British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I located near to the commune of Monchy-le-Preux on the main Arras to Cambrai road (D339) in the département of Pas-de-Calais, France.

The cemetery contains the graves of 368 known casualties and 35 unidentified.[1]

History

The cemetery was first used in May 1917 by the 29th Division to bury the dead from the Second Battle of the Scarpe of the 23 April 1917. The cemetery continued to be used until March 1918 and then again between August and October 1918.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Windmill British Cemetery, Monchy-le-Preux". CWGC. Retrieved 5 October 2009.