SENLIS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY

Senlis

Somme

France

General Directions: Senlis is a small town in the Department of the Oise, on the main road from Compiegne to Paris. Senlis French National Cemetery is on the north-west outskirts of the town between the ring road and the Velodrome. The entrance to the cemetery is in the Rue Yves Carlier. The cemetery backs onto the Communal Cemetery.

Senlis was entered and damaged by the Germans on the 2nd September, 1914, and evacuated by them a week later. It was not involved in the fighting on the Aisne and the Marne in 1918; but during those operations it became a French Hospital centre. The British 63rd Casualty Clearing Station was at Senlis for twelve days in August, 1918. Senlis French National Cemetery was begun in June, 1918, and closed in December, 1921. The majority of those buried here belonged to the 15th (Scottish) and 34th Divisions, and fell in July and August, 1918; a small number were moved from Ognon French Military Cemetery; and an unidentified soldier, who fell on the 1st September, 1914, was reburied from the battlefields. The other graves in the cemetery are those of French and Russians. Those of nine American and 39 German soldiers have been removed. Concentrated into this cemetery are graves from: Ognon French Military Cemetery was near the South-West side of the road from Ognon to Barbery. It contained in addition to 700 French and American graves, those of four soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in July, 1918. Senlis (St. Lazare) Hospital Cemetery is at the back of the great Hospital General on the Paris road. The Hospital is 1,200 years old. The cemetery contains, in addition to French Civil and Military Graves, that of one United Kingdom soldier who fell in April, 1918.

Casualty Details: UK 136, Total Burials: 136

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