Etaples Military Cemetery

Lance Corporal Eric Lister – York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st/4th Battalion, Regimental number 21998.

 

Died 17 December 1917. His reference grave no is XXXI.D.15.  The inscription on his grave says, “UNTIL THE DAWN”.

 

During the First World War, the area around the small fishing port of Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. At its peak, 100,000 troops were housed there with Commonwealth army training and reinforcement camps and an extensive complex of hospitals.

 

Etaples Military Cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens as Principal Architect and Major George Hartley Goldsmith as Assistant Architect. The cemetery features a Stone of Remembrance and the Cross of Sacrifice.