Headstones in the CWGC Loos British Cemetery, Loos (Loos-en-Gohelle), Pas de Calais, France.
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3441 x 2249 px | 29.1 x 19 cm | 11.5 x 7.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
15 August 2013Location:
Loos (Loos-en-Gohelle), Pas de Calais, FranceMore information:
The cemetery was begun by the Canadian Corps in July 1917, and the graves then made are contained in Rows A and B of Plot I and Row A of Plot II. The remainder of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and smaller cemeteries over a wide area North and East of the village. The great majority of the soldiers buried here fell in the Battle of Loos. There are nearly 3, 000, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, two-thirds from the 1914-18 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to two soldiers from the United Kingdom and four from Canada who are known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 44 soldiers from Canada and 12 from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.