Cemetery #5401
Lichfield Crater
Also known as Lichfield Crater, Thelus · Lichfield Crater Cemetery · Cratère Lichfield
0
documented records
≈ 20–40
approx. capacity (graves)
990 m²
cemetery area
Oct 18, 2026
last modified
About this cemetery
Lichfield Crater is a First World War Canadian military cemetery at Thélus, one of two craters created by underground mine explosions that were used for burials. It was designed by W H Cowlishaw and contains 40 Canadian burials. It is one of 139 funerary and memorial sites of the Western Front inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Cemetery location
GPS coordinates: 50.359486° N, 2.776649° E Directions in Google Maps (opens in a new tab)
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Nearby cemeteries
The closest other burial grounds listed on EveryStone.
- Zivy Crater 540 m away · Thélus
- Neuville Saint Vaast Cemetery 690 m away · Neuville-Saint-Vaast
- Thelus Military Cemetery 850 m away · Thélus
- Nine Elms Military Cemetery Thelus 1.6 km away · Thélus
- Petit-Vimy British Cemetery 1.8 km away · Thélus
- Thélus Communal Cemetery 1.9 km away · Thélus
- Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery 2.0 km away · Neuville-Saint-Vaast
- Arras Road Cemetery 2.0 km away · Roclincourt
- Canadian Cemetery No 2, Neuville-St Vaast 2.2 km away · Neuville-Saint-Vaast · 1 record
- La Targette British Cemetery 2.2 km away · Neuville-Saint-Vaast · 1 record
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How big is Lichfield Crater?
Lichfield Crater covers about 990 m² (0.2 acres), about the size of 4 tennis courts. It is the 659th smallest of the 4,957 cemeteries we list in Hauts-de-France.