Croix-Du-Bac British Cemetery, Steenwerck

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Location Information:

Steenwerck is a village approximately 5 kilometres south-west of Armentieres and a similar distance north-east of Estaires.

Croix-du-Bac is a hamlet 3.5 kilometres south of Steenwerck. Leave Croix-du-Bac on the D10 and head south east. The Cemetery is 1 kilometre from the church on the right hand side of the D10.

Historical Information:

The cemetery was begun in July 1916 and used by field ambulances and fighting units until March 1918. On 10 April 1918, Croix-du-Bac was in German hands but was retaken by the 23rd Lancashire Fusiliers on 2 September, and a few further burials were made in the cemetery in October.

After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged when further graves were brought in from the battlefields.

There are now 554 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 263 of the graves are unidentified, but special memorials commemorate 140 casualties known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains two French war graves.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.