Cannock Chase German war cemetery

Infobox Military Memorial
name= Cannock Chase German war cemetery
body= Commonwealth War Graves Commission
for the German War Graves Commission
("Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge")


caption=
commemorates=
use_dates= 1914-18 and 1939-45
coordinates=coord|52.7398|-2.0224|display=title|region:GB_scale:2000
nearest_town= Cannock, Staffordshire, England
designer= Diez Brandi, Göttingen, Germany
Harold Doffman & Peter Leach, Stafford, England
inscription=
established= 1956 (consecration cemetery)
unveiled=
total= 4,855
unknowns= 5 (World War I);
90 (World War II)
commemorated=
by_country= German Empire (World War I);
Nazi Germany (World War II)
by_war= 2,143 (World War I);
2,786 (World War II)
source= See sources

The Cannock Chase German war cemetery (gbmapping|SJ984157) is in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England.

On 16 October 1959, the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany made an agreement about the future care of German military personnel and German civilian internees of both World wars interred in scattered cemeteries not already maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It was agreed that the remains would be transferred to a single central cemetery and Cannock Chase was established for this purpose.

The German War Graves Commission ("Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge") made the necessary arrangements and the inauguration and dedication of this cemetery - which is maintained under the intergovernment agreement by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - took place in June 1967. It contains nearly 5,000 German and Austrian graves. There is a small separate section for the crews of the four airships (SL 11, L32, L31, L48) shot down in World War I.

Notable people include:
* Ernst Busch, World War II Field-Marshal and Pour le Mérite ("Blue Max") recipient.
* Maximilian von Herff, World War II SS-General.

References

* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=4007266&mode=1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cannock Chase web page]
* [http://www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=1106&documentID=171 Cannock Chase Council web page]
* [http://www.worldwar1.nl/cannock/cannock.html World War I web page]
* [http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/cannock.htm Hell Fire Corner web site]

External links

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* [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11770 Oberleutant Wisseler buried at Cannock]