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Neuve Chapelle is a small village some 15
kilometres south-east of Lille and 6 kilometres north of La Bassee.
From La Bassee take the Estaires road, D947, for 5 kilometres then
turn right onto the D171 for 1 kilometre into Neuve Chapelle. Turn
left after the church and then right onto a rough track some 300
metres past the track to Neuve Chapelle British Cemetery. Neuve
Chapelle Farm Cemetery will be found on the left hand side. The
cemetery is well sign-posted.
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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 is in a secluded position between the
British Cemetery and the Church. It was begun by the 13th London
Regiment (The Kensingtons) during the Battle of Neuve-Chapelle. It
contains the graves of 53 soldiers from the United Kingdom, of whom 52
fell in that battle and one in September 1918. The unnamed graves are
31 in number, and special memorials are erected to 13 men of the
Kensingtons who are buried among them. The cemetery covers an area of
700 square yards.
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