Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery
- United Kingdom
- British Commonwealth
- France
The Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery is a World War I cemetery located in the commune of Fleurbaix, in the Pas-de-Calais departement of France, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the village of Fleurbaix on the D175 road (rue de Pétillon).[1]
British soldiers of the 19th Infantry Brigade made the earliest burials at the site in October 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres.[2] By the end of the war, the cemetery contained 123 graves.[2] This number nearly tripled after a postwar consolidation of war burial sites, when Le Trou Aid Post was expanded by the architect Sir Herbert Baker.[2]
Described as one of Baker's most sentimental works,[3] the rural site is surrounded by a narrow moat and sheltered by a grove of weeping willows. Visitors approach over a footbridge and enter through a delicate cottage-style gateway.[3]
The cemetery contains more than 350 graves, and over two hundred are unidentified.[2] The dead represent the battlefields of Ypres, Le Maisnil (October 1914), Aubers Ridge (May 1915), Loos (September–October 1915), and Fromelles (July 1916).[2]
See also
- Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery
- V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
- Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
References
- ^ a b "Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Fleurbaix". Cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 29 December 2013..
- ^ a b c d e "CWGC – Cemetery Details". Cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ^ a b Geurst, Jeroen (2010). Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Rotterdam: 010 Publ. p. 70. ISBN 9789064507151.
External links
- Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Media related to Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Fleurbaix at Wikimedia Commons