STRAZEELE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord
France
Location Information
Strazeele is a village and commune 32 kilometres north-west of Lille, just south of the main road (N42) roughly halfway between the towns of Bailleul and Hazebrouck.
The cemetery is approximately 455 metres from the church. At the southern end, about 9 metres from the crucifix, are the Commonwealth war graves of fives soldiers from the 1939-1945 war, one of whom is not identified.
Burial Details
78571 Second Lieutenant Desmond Fitzroy Cardwell, 5th Cinque Ports Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, died 27th May 1940.
6092305 Private Robert Bruce Irvine, 1/5th Bn., The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), died 28th May 1940, aged 21.
6402754 Private William Alfred Smith, 5th Cinque Ports Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, died between 27th May 1940 and 4th June 1940, aged 21. Son of John Henry and Edith Alice Smith, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
883419 Gunner Samuel Wright, 32 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, died between 26th May 1940 and 4th June 1940, aged 19. Son of Samuel and Annie Wright, of Old Radford, Nottingham.
Strazeele is a village and commune 32 kilometres north-west of Lille, just south of the main road (N42) roughly halfway between the towns of Bailleul and Hazebrouck.
The cemetery is approximately 455 metres from the church. At the southern end, about 9 metres from the crucifix, are the Commonwealth war graves of fives soldiers from the 1939-1945 war, one of whom is not identified.
Burial Details
78571 Second Lieutenant Desmond Fitzroy Cardwell, 5th Cinque Ports Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, died 27th May 1940.
6092305 Private Robert Bruce Irvine, 1/5th Bn., The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), died 28th May 1940, aged 21.
6402754 Private William Alfred Smith, 5th Cinque Ports Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, died between 27th May 1940 and 4th June 1940, aged 21. Son of John Henry and Edith Alice Smith, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
883419 Gunner Samuel Wright, 32 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, died between 26th May 1940 and 4th June 1940, aged 19. Son of Samuel and Annie Wright, of Old Radford, Nottingham.
