The uniquely designed and shaped CWGC Quarry Cemetery (a fomer chalk pit), Vermelles, Pas de Calais, France.
The cemetery is not visible from the main road as it is below ground level, lying in a chalk pit 3 metres below the ground level. Quarry Cemetery was used from July 1915 to June 1916, and (for two burials) in August 1917. Its existence is due chiefly to the fighting at Fosse 8 and at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, and it contains many graves of the dismounted Cavalry who occupied this sector in 1915-16. The cemetery, was severely damaged by shell fire. There are now over 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 10 are unidentified and many of the graves, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words "Buried near this spot".
Size: 3504px × 2336px
Location: Vermelles, Pas de Calais, France
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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