German War Cemetery Cambrai East

The Cambrai East military cemetery was made by the Germans during the First World War. They have laid graves here for the French, Commonwealth and German dead. At the end of the First World War, the Bavarian commander transferred the care and maintenance of the cemetery to the city by means of an inscription on the cemeteries.

The Commonwealth plots can be found in plots I to VI, in the southeast corner, and plot VII, on the north side. The plots I to IV were made by Commonwealth troops after the conquest of Cambrai. On plots V and VI there are 69 graves from the battlefields east and south of the city, and on plot VII are the graves of Commonwealth prisoners.

On the German part of the cemetery are:
10,685 German war victims
6 Romanian war victims
192 Russian war victims

There are 501 Commonwealth war graves of the First World War on two adjacent fields.

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Source

• Text: Willem Visser en Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
• Photos: Corné Klijs