View across the Wimereux Commonwealth Cemetery, France towards the final resting place of the Canadian poet, Lt Col John McCrae.

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"Wimereux was the headquarters of the Queen Mary's Army Auxilliary Corps during the First World War and in 1919 it became the General Headquarters of the British Army. From October 1914 onwards, Boulogne and Wimereux formed an important hospital centre and until June 1918, the medical units at Wimereux used the communal cemetery for burials, the south-eastern half having been set aside for Commonwealth graves, although a few burial were also made among the civilian graves. By June 1918, this half of the cemetery was filled, and subsequent burials from the hospitals at Wimereux were made in the new military cemetery at Terlincthun."

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Size: 5129px × 3418px
Location: Wimereux Commonwealth Cemetery, Wimereux, France
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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