Richebourg Portuguese Military Cemetery

Local nameCimetière militaire portugais de Richebourg
LocationRichebourg, France

The Portuguese Military Cemetery in Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, France, is the burial site of 1,831 casualties of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in World War I. It is the only Portuguese military cemetery in France.

The cemetery was built between 1924 and 1928 and a great number of its dead were killed in the Battle of the Lys in April 1918. A total of 238 are unidentified. Other burials were moved to the site from the rest of France, Belgium and German prisoner of war camps. In 1939, it was expanded from 1,500 graves to its present capacity.

In 2014, the cemetery was one of several across France and Belgium listed to be nominated to be UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Military_Cemetery,_Richebourg

Address Route d'Estaires, 62136, France

Coordinates 50°34'24.817" N 2°46'32.842" E

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