WORMHOUDT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.88952, Longitude: 2.46533
Image above © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information
Wormhoudt is a large village 20 kilometres south of Dunkirk on the main Dunkirk-Amiens road. The cemetery is about 800 metres north of the Church and some 50 metres east of the main road. The turning for the cemetery is narrow and not easily seen. It can be found opposite the Gendarmerie. The Commonwealth burials can be found on the left hand side and at the far end of the Communal Cemetery.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
The cemetery was used during the Second World War mainly for the burial of those killed during the German advance of May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk.
Total Commonwealth Burials: 148.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 4.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 110, India 1. Total 111.
World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 33.
Entrance & World War One Burials
Shot at Dawn
9197 Private
William Henry Thomas Henry Phillips
1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
executed for desertion 30th May 1916, grave in NW part of cemetery.
His Parents were William Phillips and Mary Jane Beck.
Headstone in gallery above
9197 Private
William Henry Thomas Henry Phillips
1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
executed for desertion 30th May 1916, grave in NW part of cemetery.
His Parents were William Phillips and Mary Jane Beck.
Headstone in gallery above
Other World War One Burials
Captain Reginald Kinloch MacGregor, Royal Army Medical Corps, died 23rd April 1916, aged 28. Only son of Robert Drummond MacGregor and Margaret MacGregor, of 88, Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Dearly Loved & Sadly Missed"
22940 Private C. S. Roe, 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment, died 14th July 1916.
M/27995 Company Quartermaster Sergeant H. W. Saunders, Military Transport, Army Service Corps, died 10th April 1916.
Captain Reginald Kinloch MacGregor, Royal Army Medical Corps, died 23rd April 1916, aged 28. Only son of Robert Drummond MacGregor and Margaret MacGregor, of 88, Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Dearly Loved & Sadly Missed"
22940 Private C. S. Roe, 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment, died 14th July 1916.
M/27995 Company Quartermaster Sergeant H. W. Saunders, Military Transport, Army Service Corps, died 10th April 1916.
