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[Patrick Mestdag]

QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY, ESTREE-CAUCHY

Hier stond een evacuatie veldhospitaal , want het lag op de hoofdweg
Van Arras naar Boulogne.
De jongens die hier liggen zijn aan hun verwondingen bezweken
De begraven Fransen zijn naar Loretto overgebracht en de Duitsers naar Thelus










The area was used by Dressing Stations during the greater part of the War, and the cemetery was begun by French troops in June 1915, and carried on by British Field Ambulances from March 1916 to April 1918. The 335 French and 19 German graves were removed after the Armistice to other cemeteries. There are now over 100, 1914-18 casualties

Meer info zie
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=31305&mode=1

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Patrick
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Verdun ….papperlapapp! Louis Fernand Celine
Ein Schlachten war’s, nicht eine Schlacht zu nennen“ Ernst Junger .
Oublier c'est trahir ! marechal Foch

[mrs Stan]

Shot at Dawn Quatre Vents Military Cemetery



- Rifleman Frederick Harding, 1 Kings Royal Rifle Corps, executed for desertion 29/06/1916, plot 2 row A 6.

- Private A Murphy, 9 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), executed for desertion 17/08/1916, plot 2 row A 9.

- Private Henry H Kerr, 7 Canadian Expeditionary Force, executed for desertion 21/11/1916, plot 3 row A 9.

- Private John Morris Higgins, 1 Canadian Expeditionary Force, executed for desertion 07/12/1916, plot 1 row B 2.



bron:
Shot at Dawn by Julian Putkowski & Julian Sykes.
Death sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914-1924 by Gerard Oram.
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"Those boys were lions led by donkeys" quoted by our friend Mike about the victims of shot at dawn