WANQUETIN CEMETERY - Revision history

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To read the Wikipedia entry on this French village, please click [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanquetin here] and for the CWGC Cemetery please click [https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/7804/wanquetin-communal-cemetery-extension/ here]. There is one casualty from 70th Infantry Brigade interred here, whose headstone appears below and on his Memorial Page.

It is understood, from local research by the renowned French historian Andre Coilliot, that the remains of the May 1940 casualties were collected by a CWGC gardener and brought to this existing Cemetery for burial. Several of the dates of death are estimates and it is possible that they relate, not to the ambush on 20th May, but to the Arras counter-attack in 21st May 1940. Whether Private McParlin had been seconded from 11th to 8th Battalion for the purposes of that attack is not known. Further work will be done on archive documents to try and identify where and when these men were killed.

The photographs of the Cemetery taken during the research trip are set out below:-

[[File:Cross_of_Sacrifice.JPG|800px|thumb|centre|Wanquetin Cross of Sacrifice]]

[[File:Cemetery_Register.JPG|800px|thumb|centre|Cemetery Register]]

[[File:General_view_of_CWGC_plot.JPG|800px|thumb|centre|WW2 CWGC plot]]

[[File:McParlin_R_D_T_4455849_11_DLI.JPG|800px|thumb|centre|CWGC Headstone Private R D T McParlin 11th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry]]

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 To read the Wikipedia entry on this French village, please click [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanquetin here] and for the CWGC Cemetery please click [https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/7804/wanquetin-communal-cemetery-extension/  here].  There is one casualty from 70th Infantry Brigade interred here, whose headstone appears below and on his Memorial Page.
-It is understood, from local research by the renowned French historian Andre Coilliot, that the remains of the May 1940 casualties were collected by a CWGC gardener and brought to this existing Cemetery for burial.  Several of the dates of death are estimates and it is possible that they relate, not to the ambush on 20th May, but to the [[ARRAS]] counter-attack on 21st May 1940.  Whether Private McParlin had been seconded from 11th to 8th Battalion for the purposes of that attack is not known.  Further work will be done on archive documents to try and identify where and when these men were killed.
+It is understood, from local research by the late renowned French historian Andre Coilliot, that the remains of the May 1940 casualties were collected by a CWGC gardener and brought to this existing Cemetery for burial.  Several of the dates of death are estimates and it is possible that they relate, not to the ambush on 20th May, but to the [[ARRAS]] counter-attack on 21st May 1940.  Whether Private McParlin had been seconded from 11th to 8th Battalion for the purposes of that attack is not known.  Further work will be done on archive documents to try and identify where and when these men were killed.
 The photographs of the Cemetery taken during the research trip are set out below:-

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 To read the Wikipedia entry on this French village, please click [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanquetin here] and for the CWGC Cemetery please click [https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/7804/wanquetin-communal-cemetery-extension/  here].  There is one casualty from 70th Infantry Brigade interred here, whose headstone appears below and on his Memorial Page.
-It is understood, from local research by the renowned French historian Andre Coilliot, that the remains of the May 1940 casualties were collected by a CWGC gardener and brought to this existing Cemetery for burial.  Several of the dates of death are estimates and it is possible that they relate, not to the ambush on 20th May, but to the Arras counter-attack on 21st May 1940.  Whether Private McParlin had been seconded from 11th to 8th Battalion for the purposes of that attack is not known.  Further work will be done on archive documents to try and identify where and when these men were killed.
+It is understood, from local research by the renowned French historian Andre Coilliot, that the remains of the May 1940 casualties were collected by a CWGC gardener and brought to this existing Cemetery for burial.  Several of the dates of death are estimates and it is possible that they relate, not to the ambush on 20th May, but to the [[ARRAS]] counter-attack on 21st May 1940.  Whether Private McParlin had been seconded from 11th to 8th Battalion for the purposes of that attack is not known.  Further work will be done on archive documents to try and identify where and when these men were killed.
 The photographs of the Cemetery taken during the research trip are set out below:-