Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔl syʁ tɛʁnwaz], literally Saint-Pol on Ternoise; West Flemish: Sint-Pols-aan-de-Ternas; Picard: Saint-Po-su-Térnoèse) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.
On 7 November 1920, the remains of four unidentifiable, fallen British soldiers disinterred from the battlefields at Aisne, Arras, the Somme and Ypres were brought to the town's chapel.
There, Brigadier-General Louis John Wyatt of the North Staffordshire Regiment, aided by Lieutenant-Colonel EAS Gell, selected one to be carried to Westminster Abbey to be re-buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
The remaining three bodies were removed and reburied in the military cemetery [4] at Wyatt's headquarters at St Pol.
[5] Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise was the birthplace of Marie de St Pol (c1303-1377), foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge.