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Cassel Communal Cemetery Extension

  • Country France
  • Total identified casualties 92 Find these casualties
  • Region Nord
  • Identified casualties from Second World War
  • GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.79878, Longitude: 2.49219
CASSEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION - CWGC
CASSEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION - CWGC

Location information

Cassel is a town and commune on one of the few high points of the department of the Nord. Cassel Communal Cemetery is on the south-east side of the town. From the Grand Place, head south on the Rue Marachal Foch. The cemetery will be found 500 metres on the left hand side of the road.

Visiting information

ARRIVAL

The cemetery is signposted outside the cemetery and on the gatepost at the main entrance of the Communal Cemetery. The cemetery is located on Av. Albert Mahieu, Cassel.

PARKING

It is possible for visitors to park at the side of the main street outside the cemetery within 30 metres of the main entrance.

There are multiple parking spaces along both sides of the street.

The ground is firm and flat and has a tarmac surface.

There is a pedestrian crossing to the right of the cemetery entrance. The main road is cobblestone paving. There are raised kerbs on either side of the road adjacent to the footpath.

ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE

The main gate is painted white, tall and wide, over 2metres high and 2 metres wide. There are 2 panels, both fully open during cemetery opening hours.

There is a tarmac topped path from the main gate running downhill through the centre of the cemetery. The ground surface is firm and smooth.

Access to the CWGC section of the cemetery is 25 metres from the entrance gate. On the right side of the pathway is a white metal handrail. At the end of the handrail is a concrete kerb, 300 mm wide. The grass pathway is level with the kerb at the top of the grass path but does drop down closer to the end of the handrail.

The grass pathway slopes down into the cemetery. There is brick edging with a hedge behind along the left side of the path.

The Cross of Sacrifice is at the bottom left corner of the cemetery viewed from the entrance. The ground slopes steeply downwards from the entrance to the far end of the cemetery.

There is no Register Box on site.

There is seating area with a wooden bench outside the cemetery entrance.

All internal paths are grass, the ground is firm, the ground is sloped.

ALTERNATIVE ACCESS

There is no alternative access into the cemetery.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

There are cemetery opening hours at the entrance gate.

8h30 to 17h30 November to March

8h00 to 19h00 April to October

History information

During the 1914-18 War Cassel was at different periods the headquarters of both Marshal Foch and Lord Plumer. 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".