Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery

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Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery is a military cemetery in Arques-la-Bataille near Dieppe, France, that contains the graves of nearly 400 servicemen of the British Empire in the First World War. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was designed by John Reginald Truelove. Many of the soldiers buried there were members of the South African Native Labour Corps. The cemetery contains 381 graves, of which 378 have been identified.

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Arques-la-Bataille British Cemetery
Rue de la Pyramide, Dieppe

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Rue de la Pyramide
76880 Dieppe
Normandy, France
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