Etretat Churchyard is a

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Étretat Étretat () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-Maritime Departments of France, department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy Regions of France, region of Northwestern France. It is a Tourism, tourist and Agriculture, far ...

, Normandy, France, maintained by the

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. It was originally the civil graveyard of ''Église Notre-Dame'' (the Church of Our Lady) in that town. In December 1914, No.1 General Hospital was established in Étretat and it remained until December 1918. The first burials took place among the French civil graves but in February 1915, two plots were set aside for Commonwealth burials in the churchyard. These were filled by December 1916 and from then until December 1918, the extension was used. Etretat Churchyard itself contains 264 Commonwealth and one German burial from the First World War. Etretat Churchyard Extension contains 282 First World War burials and four from the Second World War. The extension also includes 12 German graves. The extension was designed by

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* Leo Clarke VC (1892–1916), Canadian soldier *

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* Wilfred Harold Ramsden MM DCM * Albert Edward Barber MM * William John Curtis MM * Frederick Henry Mann MM * Benjamin King Barnes DCM * Thomas Bleackley DCM * T. W. Creed DCM * L. A. Walford DCM *

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{{reflist Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France Cemeteries in Normandy World War I cemeteries in France World War II cemeteries in France

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