Detail View: SHIMMER: Quatre-Vents Military Cemetery
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Title:
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Quatre-Vents Military Cemetery
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Creation Date:
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1919
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Image Date:
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2011
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Period:
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20th century
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Location:
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Estrée-Cauchy, Pas-de-Calais
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Country:
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FRANCE
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Display Creator:
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
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Terms:
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Dark tourism
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Image ID:
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11-2096
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Description:
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Exterior view: cemetery and surrounding fields looking towards the road. The former site of a field hospital. Contains the graves of 55 British, 77 Canadian, 4 South African and 1 Indian soldiers. 4 of these were shot for desertion. 335 French and 19 Germans originally interred here were reburied elsewhere after hostilities ceased.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Related Information:
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission. For more information see also < http://www.cwgc.org/ > . For more information see also < http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ > .
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Creator:
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COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
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Subject Heading:
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Cemeteries -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of
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Subject Heading:
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Cemeteries -- France
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Subject Heading:
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War memorials -- France
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