Commonwealth War Graves Cassel

Avenue Albert Mahieu 590, Cassel
Hauts-de-France, France

At the end of May 1940 the western flank of the British Expeditionary Force was on the line Dunkirk-Cassel-Hazebrouck and Cassel was in the section defended by the 48th and 44th Division on May 28th-29th. There are now nearly 100, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 20 are unidentified and one of the soldiers from the United Kingdom whose grave could not be precisely located is commemorated by a special memorial inscribed "Buried near this spot". Ther are also four French and twelve Czechoslovakian war graves of World War ll.

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Text by: Fedor de Vries

Photo(s): Luc Van Waeyenberge

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