In Memory of
A TEAGLE
Private
20368
2nd/5th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment
who died on
Sunday, 3rd December 1916.
| Additional Information: |
Son of Mr. I. Teagle, of Golden Lane,
Kingswood, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. |
Commemorative Information
| Cemetery: |
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais,
France
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Grave Reference/
Panel Number: |
XX. E. IA.
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| Location: |
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south
of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the
west side of the road to Boulogne.
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| Historical Information: |
During the First World War, the area around
Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth
reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except
from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the
southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the
sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one
stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could
deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after
the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot
remained. The cemetery contains 10,769 Commonwealth burials of the First
World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Hospitals were again
stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was
used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of
May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the
cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War
burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains
658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The
cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. |
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