Will O'Brien Posted 15 July , 2004 Share Posted 15 July , 2004 As per the CWGC Name: TAIT, TOM WELSH Initials: T W Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment: Machine Gun Guards Age: 33 Date of Death: 15/07/1917 Service No: 989 Additional information: Son of Jane Tait, of Hazelbank, Johnstone, Dumfriesshire, and the late Hugh Tait. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: XXV. K. 12. Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 15 July , 2004 Author Share Posted 15 July , 2004 & the cemetery info Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Country: France Locality: Pas de Calais Location Information: 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. 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, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. No. of Identified Casualties: 11480 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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