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From La Bassee take the Estaires road, D947, for
approximately 5 kilometres, then turn right along the D171 for 1
kilometre until entering Neuve Chapelle. Turn left after the church
and then right after 200 metres onto a rough track where the
Cemetery will be found on the left hand side.
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Neuve-Chapelle is a village in the Department of the
Pas-de-Calais, midway between Bethune and Armentieres, and three and a
half miles South of Laventie. The village has given its name to the
battle which began on the 10th March 1915, and in which it was
captured, not for the first time, by the IV and Indian Corps. It was
adopted by the County Borough of Blackpool in the 1920s. The cemetery
stands in a secluded position 400 yards North-West of the Church. It
was begun during the Battle of Neuve-Chapelle and used until the
following November. It contains the graves of 44 soldiers from the
United Kingdom, eight of whom are unidentified, and special memorials
are erected to six soldiers from the United Kingdom known to be buried
in these graves. Other special memorials record the names of five
soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in Neuve-Chapelle Churchyard,
whose graves were destroyed by shell-fire. The cemetery was known at
one time as Moggs Hole Cemetery. It covers an area of 494 square
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