SARRALBE MILITARY CEMETERY
Sarralbe
Moselle
France
General Directions: Sarralbe is a town in the Department of the Moselle, close to the German border. The CWGC cemetery is in front of the civil cemetery which is located to the south-west of the town of Sarralbe. The cemetery is best reached from the main road Richeling-Sarralbe N.56. The cemetery lies on the right hand side of the D.156 which is reached by taking a right turn off the N.56 before entering the town of Sarralbe.
Sarralbe Military Cemetery was begun by the Germans but now contains only the graves of Commonwealth soldiers who died as prisoners of war. The cemetery contains 94 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, three of which are unidentified. Sixty-three of the graves were brought from Haboudange Communal Cemetery German Extension, Morhange, Plaine-de-Walsch, Sarrebourg, Sarreguemines and Saverne (Zabern) Military Cemeteries and Czersk and Furstenfeldbruck Prisoners of War Cemeteries. There are special memorials to 11 casualties buried at Morhange and Sarrebourg whose graves could not be found.
Casualty Details: UK 106, Canada 1, Total Burials: 107
Burials by Regiment
| Royal Air Force | 18 | Rifle Brigade | 08 |
| Middlesex Regiment | 08 (02) | Royal Irish Rifles | 07 |
| West Yorkshire Regiment | 05 | Machine Gun Corps. (Inf) | 04 (02) |
| East Lancashire Regiment | 04 (01) | Bedfordshire Regiment | 03 |
| East Kent Regiment (Buffs) | 03 | East Surrey Regiment | 03 (01) |
| Somerset Light Infantry | 02 | Royal Field Artillery | 02 (01) |
| Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | 02 | Lincolnshire Regiment | 02 |
| Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry | 02 | Royal Fusiliers | 02 |
| King's Royal Rifle Corps. | 02 | Royal Naval Air Service | 02 |
| North Staffordshire Regiment | 01 | Lancashire Fusiliers | 01 |
| Wiltshire Regiment | 01 (01) | Cheshire Regiment | 01 |
| Royal Dublin Fusiliers | 01 (01) | Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment) | 01 |
| Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment | 01 | Gloucestershire Regiment | 01 (01) |
| Cameron Highlanders | 01 | South Lancashire Regiment | 01 |
| Royal Engineers | 01 | Royal West Kent Regiment | 01 |
| Royal Warwickshire Regiment | 01 | Durham Light Infantry | 01 |
| Yorkshire Regiment | 01 | London Rifle Brigade | 01 |
| King's Own Scottish Borderers | 01 | Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry | 01 |
| Royal Guernsey Light Infantry | 01 | Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 01 |
| Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) | 01 | Royal Scots | 01 |
| King's Shropshire Light Infantry | 01 | Devonshire Regiment | 01 (01) |
| Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) | 01 | Unidentified | 03 |
*Note: In some cases numbers refer to a soldier commemorated within the cemetery but not actually buried within the cemetery, these number are shown in brackets.
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