Noyelles-sur-Mer Chinese Cemetery and Memorial
A curiosity. There is not a Picardy landscape that does not have a piece of the memory of the Great War. Proof of this is the Chinese cemetery in the Bay of the Somme, where the workers who worked for the British at the rear of the front lie. Most of them died of the Spanish flu after the war.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Chinese Cemetery is a cemetery located in the French commune of Noyelles-sur-Mer, where 842 Chinese laborers are buried. They were employed by the British Army in 1916 to carry out arduous and dangerous tasks at the rear of the front line. The cemetery was built in 1921 by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which continues to maintain it today. It is the largest Chinese cemetery in France and Europe.
A World Heritage site.
Contact
Noyelles-sur-Mer Chinese Cemetery and Memorial
Hameau de la Nolette
Chemin rural
80860 NOYELLES-SUR-MER
Tel. : +33 3 22 24 27 92
E.mail : contact@tourisme-baiedesomme.fr
Site internet : www.cwgc.org
