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Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 10h00Passé
Septembre 2022
Samedi 17
10:00 - 11:00
Accessible aux handicapés moteurs
De 17 à 99 ans

CWGC Visitor Centre

5-7 rue Angèle Richard, 62217 Beaurains
  • Pas-de-Calais
  • Hauts-de-France

Conference on the St Sever Military Cemetery in Rouen

The garden of 12,000 stones
Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 10h00Passé
© CWGC

Hosted by the Norman historian Paul Le Trévier, author and editor specializing in Allied bombing on Rouen and World War II in Normandy For the past twelve years, Paul le Trévier has been surveying several times a week the lawn of the St-Sever military cemetery in Rouen. It is the largest British necropolis in France (6.5 hectares). Paul Le Trévier has become THE specialist of this place little known to the general public to which he has dedicated a reference work entitled «Le Jardin aux 12 000 pierres». According to him, this cemetery constitutes a map of the First World War in the open air: soldiers of 20 different nationalities are buried there. The victims come from the four corners of the British Empire of the time: Candians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, nationals of the West Indies (West Indies), Chinese, Poles, Russians... Behind the 11,000 steles that make up the cemetery and its extension, lie some heartbreaking stories that Paul Le Trévier will be pleased to share with you.

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CWGC Visitor Centre
5-7 rue Angèle Richard, 62217 Beaurains
  • Pas-de-Calais
  • Hauts-de-France
The CWGC Experience is a unique interpretive centre at the heart of the First World War battlefields, where the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) takes place behind the scenes., honouring the memory of the fallen soldiers of the two world wars around the world.
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