Étaples Military Cemetery is a British military cemetery with mainly World War I war dead, located in the French town of Étaples, department Pas-de-Calais (region Hauts-de-France). The cemetery is located about two kilometers north of the center of Étaples, along the road to Boulogne-sur-Mer, east of the Bay of the Canche. The entrance is at the height on the southwest side, from where the cemetery is overlooked. Access is between two columns to the Cross of Sacrifice. Behind it is the Stone of Remembrance, flanked by two monumental gatehouses. This cemetery was designed by Edwin Lutyens and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
It is the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in France with over 11,500 dead. Commonwealth casualties include 8,819 British, 1,145 Canadians, 464 Australians, 260 New Zealanders, 68 South Africans, 17 Indians and 1 Chinese who served in the Chinese Labor Corps.
The cemetery also contains 662 dead from non-Commonwealth countries: 658 Germans, of which 8 could not be identified, one Czechoslovak and 3 Belgians, including 2 civilians.
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