Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

 

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery is a large civilian cemetery just east of the city centre. It is split in two by the Rue de Dringhen, and the British plots are in the southern of the two cemetery areas.

Boulogne, was one of the three base ports most extensively used by the Commonwealth armies on the Western Front throughout the First World War, and Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas.

Until June 1918, the dead from the hospitals at Boulogne itself were buried in the Eastern Cemetery - the Commonwealth graves forming a long, narrow strip along the right hand edge of the Cemetery.

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery contains 5,577 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 224 from the Second World War.

CAPTAIN F.W. CAMPBELL VC. / 1ST BN. CANADIAN INF. / 19TH JUNE 1915. AGE 48. / HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE / WHO SINK TO REST / BY ALL THEIR COUNTRY'S / WISHES BLEST

(Grave Ref. II. A. 24.)

Frederick William Campbell - "only son of Ephraim B. and Esther A. Hunt Campbell, of Mount Forest; husband of Margaret Annie Campbell, of Mount Forest, Ontario. Served in the South African War."

"An extract from the London Gazette, No. 29272, dated 20th Aug., 1915, records the following:-For most conspicuous bravery on 15th June, 1915, during the action at Givenchy. Lt. Campbell took two machine-guns over the parapet, arrived at the German first line with one gun, and maintained his position there, under very heavy rifle, machine-gun and bomb fire, notwithstanding the fact that almost the whole of his detachment had then been killed or wounded. When our supply of bombs had become exhausted, this Officer advanced his gun still further to an exposed position, and, by firing about 1,000 rounds, succeeded in holding back the enemy's counter-attack. This very gallant Officer was subsequently wounded, and has since died."

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FLYING OFFICER / A. CAREY HILL / PILOT / ROYAL AIR FORCE / 27TH OCTOBER 1941. AGE 26 / IN DEAR MEMORY OF ANTHONY / OF KENILWORTH, / WARWICKSHIRE, ENGLAND

(Grave Ref. 11. A. 20)

"Son of Eustace and Marjorie Vivian Carey-Hill, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire."

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SQUADRON LEADER / COUNT / F.F. COLLOREDO-MANSFELD / D.F.C. & BAR / PILOT / ROYAL AIR FORCE / 14TH JANUARY 1944. AGE 33

(Grave Ref. 11. B. 18.)

Count Franz Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld - "son of Count Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld and of Countess Colloredo-Mansfeld (nee Iselin); husband of Countess Colloredo-Mansfeld, of Welham, Massachusetts, U.S.A."

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715834 GUNNER / PETER ORMROD / ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY / 21ST NOVEMBER 1917 / SWEET JESUS / OPEN WIDE THY HEART / AND LET HIM REST THEREIN / R.I.P.

(Grave Ref. VIII. I. 118.)

852 LANCE CPL. / W. ROBINSON / DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REGT. / 15TH DECEMBER 1915 / YEARS PASS BY / MY HEART STILL SORE / AS TIME GOES ON / I MISS YOU MORE (WIFE)

(Grave Ref. VIII. C. 67.)

"Son of Joseph and Esther Ann Robinson; husband of Clara Robinson, of 8, Salop St., Oldham."

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