Étaples
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Étaples or Étaples-sur-Mer is a commune in the department of Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, northern France. It is a fishing and leisure port on the Canche river.
Moorings at the mouth of the Canche River in Étaples
A satirical caricature of Napoleon's preparations for invasion by Robert Dighton, (1805)
A group of ambulance drivers from the Voluntary Aid Detachment with their vehicle, a Canadian Red Cross ambulance, at Étaples (1917)
Sir John Lavery's oil painting The Cemetery, Etaples, 1919
Étaples Military Cemetery
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Étaples Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Étaples, near Boulogne on the north-west coast of France. The cemetery holds over 11,500 dead from both World War I and Wo
Étaples
…also describes the military hospital, whose thirty or so inmates were all 'murderers...at psychological war with one another'. The nearby six-hectare Étaples Military Cemetery is resting place to 11,658 British and Allied soldiers from the conflict. When the war artist John Lavery depicted it in 1919, he showed a train in the…
Etaples cimetiere
German burials
Commonwealth burials
Stone of Remembrance and shelter