View of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France


There are now 1,572 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 420 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 36 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and nine buried in Mametz Wood Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.


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Location: Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France.
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