Commonwealth War Graves Athies Extension

The extension next to Athies Communal Cemetery contains 312 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 32 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate three casualties known to be buried among them.

The extension also contains 41 Second World War burials, ten of them unidentified, mostly dating from May 1940 and the German advance across nothern France. The graves are in a separate plot.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge