MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY
MARSEILLES
Bouches-du-Rhone
France
General Directions: Marseilles is the chief town in the Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone. Mazargues is a suburb on the south-east side of the town, 6 kilometres from the centre of Marseilles, on the coast road to Toulon via La Ciotat - Avenue General Delattre de Tassigny (No.24). The Cemetery lies on the western side of this road.
Marseilles was the Base of the Indian troops in France during the 1914-18 war; and throughout the War the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, British troops and Labour units worked in the port or passed through it. Four of the town cemeteries were used, in the main, for the burial of officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died at Marseilles. At St. Pierre Cemetery, on the East side of the town, the bodies of Hindu soldiers and labourers were cremated in 1914-16. Le Canet Old Cemetery and Le Canet New Cemetery, on the North side, were in 1917-19 the places of burial of Indian soldiers and Indian, Egyptian and Chinese labourers. Mazargues Cemetery, on the South-East side, was used less in the War; but before the Armistice an Extension was made, to which were removed, a little later, the bodies or ashes from the four Town cemeteries and from Port St. Louis-Du-Rhone Communal Cemetery.
Further Information: Due to vandalism, access to this cemetery is restricted and the cemetery is often to be found locked, the CWGC do say that it is normally open between 0900-1700 on working days, although we have found this not always to be the case.
Casualty Details: UK 465, Australia 14, New Zealand 3, South Africa 3, India 1002, Total Burials: 1487
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