Commonwealth War Graves Saint James’s Cemetery

In 1940, Dover was the headquarters for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and nearly 200,000 of the 366,000 British and Allied troops brought back during the operation were landed there. Throughout the war Dover was a particular target for the long range guns on the French coast and between September 1939 and May 1945 there were no less than 742 attacks by air raid and shelling.

On Saint James’s Cemetery, most of the 356 Second World War burials are contained in a special war graves plot at the far end of the cemetery. The plot, know as the Dunkirk plot, contains many graves from the Dunkirk operation. 22 of these burials are unidentified. There are also 392 Commonwealth war graves of the First World War, 8 Foreign National war burials and 3 non war service burials in the cemetery.

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Source

• Text: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Photos: Jente de Roust