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updated: May 27, 2003
DOINGT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Doingt was captured by the 5th Australian Division on the 5th September, 1918, and the village was completely destroyed in the fighting. In the same month, the 20th, 41st and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations came, and they remained until October. The cemetery was closed when they left. It was made in three plots; Plot I contained only British and Dominion graves, Plot II only American, and Plot III the graves of both Armies. The American graves, were removed later by the American Graves Registration Services. There are now over 400, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 1,162 square metres and is enclosed by a low brick wall with a stone coping.