Ascq Communal Cemetery is a cemetery located in the former village of
Ascq Ascq (; pcd, Ask) is a former commune on the Marque river in the Nord department in northern France, at seven kilometers from Belgium. Agricultural village until the Industrial Revolution, the former independent commune merged with others to beco ...
, today a district of
Villeneuve d'Ascq
Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; pcd, Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area (2 ...
,
Nord
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France
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.
Organisation
The cemetery shelters primarily graves of civilians, but has two particularities : it shelters British and Commonwealth war graves, as well as the bodies of the victims of Ascq massacre in 1944.
Commonwealth war graves
The cemetery hosts
Commonwealth
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war graves of the
First World War
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and the
Second World War
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.
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 Hospita.
Casualties
On the cemetery are 55 victims of the
First World War
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(died between November, 7th 1914 and September, 5th 1919) and 3 victims of the
Second World War
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(died on May, 24th and 25th 1940).
The 4 Chinese victims were workers from the
Chinese Labour Corps
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.
See also
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...
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Chinese Labour Corps
The Chinese Labour Corps (CLC; french: Corps de Travailleurs Chinois; ) was a force of workers recruited by the British government in the First World War to free troops for front line duty by performing support work and manual labour. The French ...
External links
The cemetery on ww1cemeteries.com
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France
Cemeteries in Nord (French department)
Buildings and structures in Villeneuve-d'Ascq