The CWGC and German War cemteries at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.

Описание: GPS for CWGC car park (the German cemetery is a short walk NE): 52.73659, -2.02670

The two cemeteries at Cannock Chase are located centrally in England in a forest area called Cannock Chase National Landscape.

During the First World War there was a large military camp at Cannock Chase and this became the base for the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. There was also a prisoner-of-war hospital with 1,000 beds, and both camp and hospital used the same burial ground.

The CWGC cemetery contains 97 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, most of them New Zealanders, and 286 German burials. There are also three burials of the Second World War.

The Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery contains nearly 5,000 burials from both the First and Second World War. The burials are mainly German and Austrian nationals with a very small number of Ukrainians.

On 16 October 1959, the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany made an agreement about the future care of the remains of German military personnel and German civilian internees of both world wars which at the time were interred in various cemeteries not already maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It was agreed that the remains would be transferred to a single central cemetery established on Cannock Chase for this purpose. It was was inaugurated and dedicated in June 1967. (Info: Wikipedia)