CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY
Choloy is a village 28 kilometres west of Nancy and 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The Cemetery is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Choloy War Cemetery was created by the Army Graves Service for the re-burial of casualties recovered from isolated sites, communal cemeteries, and small churchyards in north-eastern France where permanent maintenance of the graves was not possible. In 1950, for the same reason the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found it necessary to move in to this cemetery more than 100 graves from a number of churchyards and civil cemeteries in the same area. Those who lie in Choloy War Cemetery (pre-1953) are mostly airmen; but there are also soldiers belonging to the forces of the United Kingdom who died in the Saar region during the first few months of the war, i.e. up to May 1940, or as prisoners of war. There is now 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1914-1918 war and 461 of the 1939-45 war commemorated in this site. Of these, 23 of the 1939-1945 burials are unidentified. In addition there are 7 Foreign National burials, 2 of which are unidentified, and 334 non world war burials here.
The cemetery was expanded and it served as a final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force and civilian personnel who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967.
CHOLOY FRENCH NATIONAL (Mixed) CEMETERY
Choloy is a village 28 kilometres west of Nancy and 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy.HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Choloy French National (Mixed) Cemetery was begun in September, 1914, by the hospitals at Toul, and enlarged in 1924. It contains 1,650 French War Graves and 194 Allied. The one Commonwealth war grave is at the south end of Division U, in the North-West part of the cemetery.
CHAMBIERE FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, METZ
Metz is located in the Department of the Moselle, in the north-east of France on the River Moselle. Chambiere French National Cemetery is on the northern side of the city, some 3 kilometres from Metz Central Station.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
During the winter of 1939-1940 British troops were in a sector of the Saar not far from Metz, engaged in patrol and raiding activities. The 51st (Highland) Division relieved the French 7th Division, in this area, in May 1940. Metz was liberated by American troops in November, 1944. There are now nearly 100, 1914-18 and over 30, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Special memorials are erected to six British soldiers and one airman from the 1914-18 War, buried in Jarny and Labry Communal German Extension, whose graves could not be found. Certain of the British graves from the 1914-18 War were brought in from Pouilly and St. Jure German Cemeteries and Briey Communal Cemetery German Extension.
In 1953 and for part of 1954, all of the Air Division dead were buried temporarily at Chambiere French National Cemetery in Metz. Unfortunately, the number of burials so outstripped the capacity to accommodate them on an interim basis that they had to be moved to Choloy (circa late summer 1954).