AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Aire
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Aire is a town about 14 kilometres south-south-east of St. Omer. The Communal Cemetery is 0.75 kilometres north of the town, on the road to St. Omer and the four Commonwealth plots are on the east side.
From March 1915 to February 1918, Aire was a busy but peaceful centre used by Commonwealth forces as corps headquarters. The Highland Casualty Clearing Station was based there as was the 39th Stationary Hospital (from May 1917) and other medical units. Plot I contains burials from this period. The burials in plots II, III and IV (rows A to F) relate to the fighting of 1918, when the 54th Casualty Clearing Station came to Aire and the town was, for a while, within 13 kilometres of the German lines.
Casualty Details: UK 868, Canada 15, Australia 6, New Zealand 1, India 4, Germany 7, France 3, Total Burials: 904
Plan of the cemetery
Cemetery plan courtesy of Barry Cuttell
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