Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery

Wormhout cemetery (French: Cimetière de Wormhout; Dutch: Begraafplaats van Wormhout) is a communal cemetery of Wormhout in the French department Nord. The site is located 700 metres north of the centre (municipal hall) at the Cours N4 du Cimetière.

Wormhout cemetery

Cimetière de Wormhout
French civilian graves and two World War I British war graves
Details
Location	Wormhout, Nord
Country	France
Coordinates	50°53′21.649″N 2°27′55.782″E
Find a Grave	Wormhout cemetery

British war graves

Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Cross of Sacrifice and graves of the Second World War
Used for those deceased
Location	Wormhout
Burials by nation
United Kingdom
Burials by war
First World War and Second World War

A Commonwealth military burial site is located in the northeastern corner of the cemetery and includes 113 identified and 31 non-identified victims of the Second World War. These victims mainly died in May 1940 during the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk. Moreover, the site includes the Cross of Sacrifice.

Four British casualties of the First World War are buried between civilians' graves.

The graves are administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and are registered under Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery.

Graves

• Cyril Hugh Joseph Chichester-Constable [1] and James Edward Weeks Rance,[2] both majors at the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and Mervyn Ashley Edwards,[3] second lieutenant at the Royal Artillery, all decorated with the Military Cross (MC).
• John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne of the Royal Horse Guards (attd. 12th Royal Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps) and North Irish Horse who was killed in action on 23 May 1940.[4]
• W. T. H. Phillips, soldier at the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, executed for desertion.[5][6]

References

1. "MAJOR CYRIL HUGH JOSEPH CHICHESTER-CONSTABLE". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
2. "MAJOR JAMES EDWARD WEEKS RANCE". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
3. "SECOND LIEUTENANT MERVYN ASHLEY EDWARDS". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
4. "Major CRICHTON, JOHN HENRY GEORGE". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
5. All executed Brits of the First World War were rehabilitated by Royal Decree on 8 November 2006 (article 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006), except those who were convicted of murder or mutiny.
6. "PRIVATE W T H PHILLIPS". www.cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

External links

• The War Graves Photographic Project
• Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery on the website of the CWGC.