Latitude: 50.529403679085796, Longitude: 2.741818428039551
Notes:
Cuinchy is a village about 7 kms east of the town of Bethune and north of the N41 which runs between Bethune and La Bassee. About 1 km north-west of the village are cross roads known as Windy Corner, and Guards Cemetery is a little west of these cross roads. A house used as a battalion headquarters and dressing station. The cemetery grew up beside this house. Guards Cemetery now contains 3,444 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 2,198 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 36 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
(c) Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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