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Windmill British Cemetery

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Established1917
Location50°15′46″N 2°53′2″E / 50.26278°N 2.88389°E / 50.26278; 2.88389
near 
Totalburials402
Windmill British Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1917–1918
Established1917
Location50°15′46″N 2°53′2″E / 50.26278°N 2.88389°E / 50.26278; 2.88389
near 
Designed bySir Edwin Lutyens
Total burials402
Unknowns
35
Burials by nation
Burials by war

The Windmill British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I located near to the commune of Monchy-le-Preux on the main Arras to Cambrai road (D339) in the département of Pas-de-Calais, France.

The cemetery contains the graves of 368 known casualties and 35 unidentified.[1]

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