Le Treport Military Cemetery
- Country France
- Total identified casualties 450 Find these casualties
- Region Seine-Maritime
- Identified casualties from First & Second World War
- GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.05742, Longitude: 1.37323
Location information
Le Treport is a coastal town approximately 30 kilometres north-east of Dieppe. The Military Cemetery lies to the south of the town next to the town's Communal Cemetery on the D940.
Visiting information
ARRIVAL
The cemetery is signposted.
PARKING
The car park is next to the municipal cemetery, approximately 25 metres up the hill from the main entrance (to the right of the main entrance).
There is space in the car park for multiple vehicles.
The ground in the car park is flat and firm, with a tarmac surface.
The path from the car park to the main gate is on a slope; the path is smooth with a tarmac/concrete surface.
ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE
The entrance gate is at the right end of the cemetery with access from the pavement leading from the car park along the main road. There is an additional matching gate at the left end of the cemetery, but this gate is locked and not accessible.
The main gate is 1.20 metres wide, black, metal, two-leaf and mid-level (thigh height). The right side is opened with a latch near the top of the gate. The left side is opened with a vertical latch located near the bottom of the gate. Both sections open into the cemetery. There is a metal slotted drainage channel in front of the gate, between the footpath and the paving inside the gate. The paving is level with the grass.
The Cross of Sacrifice is in the centre of the cemetery, close the main road.
The ground slopes steeply upwards from the main road to the shelter building and wall at the rear of the site.
At the rear of the cemetery, behind the Stone of Remembrance, is a brick and stone wall, running width of the cemetery, with brick and stone shelter buildings at either end. There is a raised paved platform between the two shelters, with a wooden bench against the wall. There is a single step up of approximately 150 mm to access the shelter buildings from the grass and four steps up from the grass to the central raised platform.
The Register Box is located in the left side shelter building.
ALTERNATIVE ACCESS
There is no alternative access into the cemetery.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The cemetery is permanently open.
History information
During the First World War, Le Treport was an important hospital centre. No.3 General Hospital was established there in November 1914, No.16 General Hospital in February 1915, No.2 Canadian General Hospital in March 1915, No.3 Convalescent Depot in June 1915 and Lady Murray's B.R.C.S. Hospital in July 1916. These hospitals contained nearly 10,000 beds.
No.47 General Hospital arrived in March 1917 and later that year, a divisional rest camp and a tank training depot were established in the neighbourhood. By March 1919, the hospitals had been closed and Le Treport became the headquarters of the 68th Division, which re-formed there before going to the Rhine. The divisional supply depot was closed in June 1919.
There are now 445 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery. Three of the four Second World War burials are unidentified.
The cemetery, one of the first three Commission cemeteries to be built after the First World war, was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.