Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery

France / Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Givenchy-en-Gohelle /
 cemetery, First World War 1914-1918
This is Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery; a small, original wartime cemetery. It is also of an interesting design, with the stone wall surrounding it being circular. This may perhaps represent the fact that the burials were really a mass grave in a shell-hole, as can be seen at the Lichfield and Zivy Crater cemeteries near here. Perhaps the burials here were slightly more organised, as there are actually rows of headstones unlike at Lichfield and Zivy craters. There are two longer rows where the headstones are almost touching, and then a shorter row, and finally a single grave by itself comprises row D.
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Coordinates:   50°22'33"N   2°45'52"E
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