Ascq Communal Cemetery

About

Ascq Communal Cemetery is a cemetery located in the formation village of Ascq, today a district of Villeneuve d'Ascq, Nord, France.

The cemetery shelters primarily grave of civils, but has two particularities: it shelters British and Commonwealth war graves, as well as the bodies of the victims of the Ascq massacre in 1944.

Commonwealth war: The cemetery hosts Commonwealth war graves of the First World War and the Second World War.

History: At the end of 1918 and in 1919, some British units were posted in Ascq for a few months:

the 229th Field Ambulance, the 13th and 63rd Casualty Clearing Stations, the 39th Stationary Hospital.

On the cemetery are 55 victims of the First World War (died between November 7, 1914 and September 5, 1919) and 3 victims of the Second World War (died on May 24-25, 1940). The 4 Chinese victims were workers from the Chinese Labour Corps.

See also: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Chinese Labour Corps

External links: The cemetery on ww1cemeteries.com The cemetery on peterswar.net Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine Commonwealth War Graves Commission