Cemeteries in the Ypres Salient, Belgium

The cemetery contains the remains of 76 First World War burials, 63 of whom are identified. The majority of the graves are those of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (D.C.L.I.), who died in action at this place from April to July 1915. This is the reason for the name given to the cemetery. Other graves were brought into the cemetery after the war from individual plots or small groups of graves in the surrounding area.

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The cemetery takes its name from the airfield used by Allied forces which was located close by. The burials were begun in April 1918 by French troops. There were 84 American burials in the cemetery, buried between July and September 1918. After the Armistice the French and American graves were removed. There are now 104 Commonwealth burials, all of whom are identified.

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The cemetery was started by the 15th Division and the 16th (Irish) Division in August 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). At the start of the British offensive on 31^st July 1917 the site of the cemetery was in No-Mans-Land. After the British troops gained ground in their initial successful advance on the German positions here, this location then lay behind the British front line. Originally the cemetery was called New Cemetery, Frezenberg but within a few weeks it became known as Aeroplane Cemetery because there was he wreck of a crashed plane close to the original graves. The crashed plane was in the place where the Cross of Sacrifice is now located at the far end of the cemetery. After the war burials from the surrounding area and two small burial sites (20 graves from Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure No. 5, Zillebeke; 23 graves including 2 German from Lock 8 Cemetery, Voormezele) were reinterred in Aeroplane Cemetery, bringing the total number of burials of Commonwealth servicemen to 1,105 buried here. 469 of these burials are identified.

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Artillery Wood Cemetery near Boezinge (Boesinghe).

The location of Artillery Wood cemetery was behind the German front line at the start of the British offensive on 31^st July 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). The early part of the offensive here was known as the Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Successfully gaining ground on this eastern side of the Ypres-Yser (Ieper-Ijzer) canal, the Guards Division pushed the German front line eastwards, capturing the ground where the cemetery is located. Burials were interred in the cemetery from that time and it continued to be used until the German spring offensive of March 1918. By the end of the war there were 141 graves here, 42 of which were artillerymen who had died in the gun positions near here. After the war more graves were brought into the cemetery and the total graves are now 1,307. Of these 801 are identified burials.

Hedd Wynn, Private Ellis Humphrey Evans

Private Evans, who was a poet writing in the Welsh language under the name of Hedd Wynn, was mortally wounded at Iron Cross, a crossroads situated not far from the place of his burial. The crossroads is on the Boezingestraat, where the Groenestraat crosses it halfway between Pilkem and Langemark-Poelkappelle. A plaque and Welsh flag are located on the building opposite the De Sportman pub at the crossroads to commemorate the place where he was mortally wounded on 31 July 1917. Hedd Wyn is buried in this Artillery Wood Cemetery at grave reference II, row F, grave 11. For the location of the memorial plaque see our listing for Hedd Wyn Memorial Plaque at:

Monuments & Memorials on the Ypres Salient

Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge

Headstone of Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge in Artillery Wood Cemetery.

The Irish poet Francis Ledwidge is buried in this cemetery in Plot II, Row B, Grave 5. He was serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died on 31^st July 1917, the day of the launch of the British offensive the Third Battle of Ypres. He died at the crossroads just south of the cemetery and was brought into the cemetery together with the bodies of four of his comrades who also died that day. The graves of the fellow Iniskilling Fusiliers are buried near to Ledwidge and are Lance Serjeant Harte (grave reference II.D.20); Private Evans (grave reference II.D.10); Private Mattingley (grave reference II.E.14); Private Robert Sharman (grave reference II.D.4.).

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The cemetery was begun in June 1915 and used until October 1918. Casualties buried here include servicemen from 49th (West Riding) Division and 38th (Welsh) Division. The original cemetery was expanded in size after the First World War with graves brought in from the surrounding area including 32 graves from the nearby burial site at Marengo Farm Cemetery. There are 1,639 burials in the cemetery, of which 1,603 are identified. The name of the cemetery is taken from Bard Cottage, a house located near the cemetery on the other side of the Ypres-Boesinghe road, between the road and the Ypres-Yser (Ieper-Ijzer) Canal.

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Bedford House Cemetery.

Bedford House cemetery was the location of the Château Rosendal and its parkland with moats, trees and buildings. There are over 5,000 First World War Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Bedford House cemetery is one of the largest British and Commonwealth cemeteries in the Ypres Salient.

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The name of the cemetery comes from the fact that in 1915 there were three Belgian artillery batteries located at this place. One burial on this site is for a Canadian Private F Mees of the 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), who died on 28 November 1916 (grave reference Plot III, Row A, Grave 5). The rest of the graves date from June 1917 and the British offensive of the Battle of Messines when the 8th Division was in the area. The cemetery was in use until October 1918. Many of the burials are for artillerymen serving with the artillery units located in the area nearby. The cemetery contains the remains of 573 casualties, of whom 566 are identified.

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Graves of the Berks Cemetery Extension with the sculpted lion for the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in the foreground.

There are 876 First World War burials in Berks Cemetery Extension.

The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is located in this cemetery.

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There are 36 identified casualties buried in the cemetery, all but one of whom are from units serving with the Australian Infantry. Burials were started here from 8 June 1917 after the nearby Bethleem Farm was captured by the 3rd Australian Division during the first day of the Battle of Messines on 7 June. One casualty is a Machine Gunner buried in September of that year. There is a special memorial to 8 casualties who are unidentified and one casualty who is identified but only known to be buried in the vicinity of the cemetery.

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The cemetery was started by the 3rd Australian Division after the first day of the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917. It was originally known to the Australians as 3rd Division General Cemetery. After the June battle it was used by 14th (Light) Division until late September 1917. There are 165 First World War servicemen and one identified Second World War serviceman buried here.

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The cemetery was begun in August 1917 after the launch of the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele) on 31 July 1917. It was named by the 1st Leinsters. It was used as a Dressing Station cemetery from that time. At the end of the war the graves in the cemetery were mostly those of the now Plot I. After the war burials were brought here from the surrounding area and from small cemeteries, namely Bellewaarde Ridge Military Cemetery, Birr Cross Roads Cemetery No. 2, and Union Street Graveyards No. 1 and No. 2. There are 833 servicemen of the Commonwealth buried in the cemetery now, of whom 498 are identified.

Captain Harold Ackroyd, VC, MC

The first name to be listed in the cemetery register is that of Captain Harold Ackroyd, who died on 11 August 1917. He was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the 6th Battalion the Berkshire Regiment when he was killed in action. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry in tending to the wounded at that time. His name appears on one of the special memorials in this cemetery as he is believed to be buried here, but the exact location of his body is not known.

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The cemetery is located at Blauwepoort Farm. It was begun by the French Army in November 1914 and subsequently used by Commonwealth forces from February 1915 to February 1916. After the war the French graves were removed. There are 82 identified First World War casualties in the cemetery.

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The cemetery was begun in June 1917 when the farm was the location of a dressing station from the time of the preparations for the Allied offensive offensive on the German line on 31 July 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). It remained in use until December 1917. There are 442 First World War graves in the cemetery and 9 Second World War graves. The number of identified casualties is 451.

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Brandhoek Military Cemetery was the first of three cemeteries to be used in the village. Brandhoek was the location of field ambulances for most of the war. It was at a relatively safe distance from the range of German artillery and was also situated on the main road and the railway line from Ypres to Poperinge. For this reason it was a good position for medical units to receive wounded soldiers from the front lines, treat them where possible and send them by road or by rail to Poperinge. From there they could be evacuated by rail to the base hospitals in France, such as Boulogne on the French coast. Brandhoek Military Cemetery was begun in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres. The cemetery was closed in July 1917 after the New Military Cemetery No. 3 was opened from August 1917. The cemetery contains 669 First World War burials. All but three of these are identified as they died of wounds here at the medical dressing stations.

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This cemetery was the second to be started in Brandhoek village. It was begun from 31 July 1917, the opening day of the Allied offensive which was to be the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). Many of the 530 First World War burials died of wounds in the Casualty Clearing Stations based here (32nd, 3rd Australian and 44th C.C.S.) in the first weeks of August 1917. There are also 28 German war graves in the cemetery.

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC

One of the many young officers to die of his wounds here was Captain Noel Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC. He is buried in grave reference Plot III, Row B, Grave 15.

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The Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3 was the third of the three cemeteries at Brandhoek to be opened. It was begun in August 1917 and was in use until May 1918. There are 975 First World War burials in the cemetery, all but two of whom are identified.

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The cemetery was named after the farm house located here. It was begun by the 59th (North Midland) Division at the end of September 1917 during the Battle of Polygon Wood. The cemetery contains burials for 45 First World War servicemen, four of whom are unidentified.

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The cemetery takes its name from the lane on which it is located, which was named Buffs Road. The cemetery was used between July 1917 and March 1918. Burials are from units including 12th, 13th and 14th Royal Sussex and the Royal Artillery. Some graves were brought into the cemetery after the end of the war, including the identified remains of Corporal S Watters of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) who died on 22^nd October 1914. There are 289 burials or commemorations from the First World War in the cemetery. 86 of these burials are unidentified. Of these 10 are commemorated here because their graves in this cemetery were destroyed by artillery fire.

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The cemetery was named after the nearby farm house named Bus House. The cemetery dates from June to November 1917. There are 206 First World War burials and 12 of these are unidentified. There are also 79 casualties from the Second World War buried here. Two French war graves are also in the cemetery.

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There are 67 First World War burials in the cemetery. The burials were started here by 11th Division in June 1917 during the Battle of Messines. Burials include a number of soldiers serving with the Australian Infantry. The cemetery continued to be used until March 1918.

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The cemetery takes its name from the building next to the cemetery known as Essex House. The cemetery was started in November 1914 ny the 2nd Essex and 2nd Monmouthshire Regiments. It was then used by various regiments serving in this sector until July 1916, including 9th Royal Fusiliers, 11th Middlesex Regiment, 7th Suffolk Regiment, 9th Essex Regiment, 6th Buffs, 1/7th and 1/8th Worcestershire Regiment, 11th Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, 10th Royal West Kent Regiment. The cemetery fell into German occupied territory from April to September 1918 following the German spring offensive. There are 218 First World War burials, all of whom are identified.

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The cemetery was named after the farm here which was used as a dressing station during the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). There are 907 burials in the cemetery, most of whom died between June and September 1917.

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The name of the cemetery was taken from a fortified farm called Cement House, which was located on the Langemark-Boezinge road. The cemetery was started in August 1917 and continued to be used until April 1918. The original cemetery consisted of 231 graves in what is now Plot I. After the Armistice graves were brought into the cemetery and the burials now total 3,592. 1,184 are identified.

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The name of the cemetery is taken from the farm called Chester Farm by the British forces. The cemetery was in use from March 1915 to November 1917. There are 420 Commonwealth servicemen buried in this cemetery, five of whom are unidentified and two of whom are commemorated in the cemetery. The burials include 92 officers and men of the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment, who were killed between April and July 1915. 72 burials are for men of the London Regiment.

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The name of the cemetery is taken from the name of a trench called Colne Valley so called by the 49th (West Riding) Division. The cemetery was started in July 1915 and remained in use until February 1916. There are 47 burials, 30 of whom are officers and men of the West Riding Regiment.

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The cemetery was named after a shrine on the Voormezele-Wijtschate road. The cemetery was started by 19th Division in June 1917 during the Battle of Messines. It was used until November 1917. There are 75 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. Seven graves are unidentified. There were 51 German graves located in the cemetery by the end of the war. These graves were removed after the end of the war.

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The civilian cemetery at Dadizele contains 27 burials from the First World War. The burials are all dating from October 1918 when the 36th (Ulster) Division and 9th Scottish Division reached the village during the autumn in the last few weeks of the war. There are also two unidentified French graves and two unidentified Second World War burials in the cemetery.

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The cemetery takes its name from the name of the farm where it was located, called “Derry House” by the soldiers of the Royal Irish Rifles. There was a No. 1 cemetery, but this no longer exists since the graves were removed after the war. Derry House Cemetery No. 2 was started by the field ambulance unit from the 11th Division. It continued to be in use until December 1917. It was used again in October 1918 by the 2nd Battalion The London Scottish. There are 163 First World War burials, all of whom are identified. There is also a British concrete command post in the cemetery boundary, built by the 37th Division in July 1917.

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The cemetery was in use from February 1915 to May 1917. Burials were also made in March and April 1918. There are 624 burials, 8 of whom are unidentified.

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The extension contains 547 burials, including 5 unidentified, dating from May 1917 to January 1918.

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The cemetery was in use from January to March 1915. There are 46 First World War burials and 10 burials for Second World War casualties dating from late May 1940.

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The cemetery was started at the end of April 1915 and was used until May 1916. The cemetery was used in July 1917 during the British offensive in the summer of 1917. There are 283 burials in the cemetery, 277 of whom are identified. There is a row of graves for 23 casualties from 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. They were killed during the German gas attack at Hill 60 on 5 May 1915. Many of the casualties from the July 1917 burials are gunners from the artillery units which were based in the vicinity at that time.

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The cemetery was started by field ambulance units of 48th (South Midland) and 58th (London) Divisions in August 1917. It was used until January 1918. During the years 1924 to 1926 graves from the surrounding area were brought in to the cemetery, which originally contained 86 burials. The cemetery comprises an original site of 88 graves in Plot I rows B to E. The extension of the cemetery after the war in the 1920s comprises Plot I rows F to S and all of the graves in Plot II. The total number of burials is 676, and 253 of these are identified.

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The location of the cemetery was ground captured by the 4th New Zealand Brigade during the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October 1917, which was one of the battles within the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). The cemetery was created after the Armistice when graves from the surrounding area were brought together. There are 1,439 burials and commemorations. Of the total number of burials 481 are identified.

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Three Casualty Clearing Stations (C.S.S.) - the 4th, 47th and 61st - were set up in this location from July 1917 to care for casualties from the 1917 British summer offensive which would become the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). The cemetery was continually in use until early 1918. The number of burials for the First World War casualties totals 3,174. There are 65 German graves. Also there are 74 Second World War burials dating from May 1940.

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The cemetery was originally called Villa Gretchen Cemetery. It is located near to a building called Villa Gretchen and a building called Dragoon House by British forces. It was started on 9 August by the 13th Royal Welch Fusiliers. The area had been captured by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 31 July 1917 at the start of the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). It was used until October 1917. There are 66 First World War burials in the cemetery, 10 of whom are unidentified.

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The village of Dranouter was occupied by the British 1st Cavalry Division on 14 October 1914. The cemetery was used from October 1914 to July 1915. It remained in Allied territory until the German advance during the German spring offensive in April 1918. The village was recaptured by the British 30th Division on 30 August 1918. There are 79 Commonwealth burials in Dranouter Churchyard, one of whom is unidentified.

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The village of Dranouter was occupied by the British 1st Cavalry Division on 14 October 1914. The cemetery was started after July 1915 when the Dranoutre Churchyard cemetery was closed. It was used until March 1918 when the German forces captured the village. The ground was recaptured in the autumn of 1918 and the cemetery was used again in September and October 1918. There are 456 Commonwealth burials in Dranouter Military Cemetery, two of whom are unidentified. One German war grave is located in the cemetery.

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This was the location of an Advanced Dressing Station (A.D.S.). The cemetery was started in July 1917. The cemetery was enlarged when graves from small burial sites and individual graves were brought to the cemetery to be reinterred. There are 1,544 burials in the cemetery, 1,368 of whom are identified. There are 57 graves of other nationalities. There is one Second World War burial dating from May 1940.

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The cemetery was named after a brewery which was located opposite to the cemetery. It is a collection of small burial grounds, where the rows of graves vary from one to fourteeen. The cemetery was used between February 1915 and November 1917. There are 149 First World War burials in the cemetery.

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There are 1,200 WW1 servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 103 of the burials are unidentified but memorials commemorate 19 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.

“In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow...”

Essex Farm Cemetery is believed to have been the location where Major John McCrae, a Canadian doctor serving with the 1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery, wrote the draft of the poem “In Flanders Fields” on the evening of 2 May 1915.

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The cemetery was in use between 9 June and 5 August 1917. Several field ambulance units were located near to the cemetery: 62nd, 16th, 9th, 129th and 130th. The cemetery contains the graves of 408 First World War burials, two of whom are unidentified. There are three German war graves.

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The cemetery was used from February to May 1915 by 2nd Battalion Royal Scots and 4th Battalion Middlesex. Three casualties were buried here in 1916. After the war graves were brought into the cemetery from small burial sites in the area near Kemmel. There are now 79 First World War burials. 44 of the burials are unidentified.

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The village of Reninghelst was in Allied territory for the duration of the First World War. The cemetery was started by field ambulance and fighting units in April 1918. It was originally called Ouderdom Military Cemetery, after the hamlet of Ouderdom where it is located. The name Grootebeek Cemetery comes from the stream the Grootebeek or Groote Kemmelbeek which runs through the site. There are 109 burials and commemorations at the cemetery. There are two Second World War burials in the cemetery.

Private John Lynn, VC, DCM

Private Lynn is commemorated on a special memorial in the cemetery. He was orginally buried in Vlamertinghe Churchyard but his grave was destroyed. He was serving with the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers during the Second Battle of Ypres. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his courage in the face of an enemy gas attack on 2 May 1915.

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The cemetery was named after a farm called Gunners Farm, which was located on the opposite side of the road. The cemetery was used by 9th Battalion Essex Regiment and 7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment from July 1915. Graves also included servicmen from 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 11th Lancashire Fusiliers and 9th (Scottish) Division, the Royal West Kent Regiment and the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment. The ground was captured by German forces following the German spring offensive in April 1918 but was recaptured in September 1918. There are 175 Commonwealth and 4 German burials in the cemetery.

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The cemetery was started in July 1917. It was used by infantry, artillery and field ambulance units until September 1918. There are 467 Commonwealth burials in the cemetery.

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The cemetery was started in April 1918. It was named after a stores dump which was located close to the cemetery. It continued to be used until October 1918. After the Armistice over 200 graves were brought into the cemetery from small burial sites and individual graves in the surrounding area. 20 graves were brought in from Brielen Military Cemetery. There are 437 burials, of which 299 are identified.

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The cemetery was started in March 1915 and was used until August 1917. It was also known as Ravine Wood Cemetery. The cemetery was badly damaged by artillery shelling after that time and the burials known to be buried in the cemetery were also damaged. For this reason the headstones have been arranged in a circle around the Cross of Sacrifice. There are 98 First World War burials, two of whom are unidentified.

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The cemetery was started in October 1917 by 7th Division. By the end of the war there were 76 burials (Rows A to D of Plot I). After the war graves were brought in from small burial plots and other burial sites including Bass Wood Cemeteries Nos. 1 and 2, Zillebeke (48 burials); Koelenberg German Cemeteries, Gheluwe (10 burials); K.O.S.B Cemetery, Gheluwe (18 burials); La Chapelle Farm, Zillebeke (17 burials); Menin Road Pillbox Cemetery, Zillebeke (20 burials); Nieuwe Kruiseecke Cabaret Cemetery, Gheluvelt (22 burials); Pillbox Cemetery, Zonnebeke (63 burials); Sanctuary Wood Old British Cemetery, Zillebeke (54 burials); Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Gheluvelt (36 burials); Westhoek Ridge Small Cemetery, Zonnebeke (22 burials). There are 5,923 burials in the cemetery, of whom 2,344 are identified.

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The cemetery contains 1,855 Belgian, 146 French and 81 Italian graves. Almost all the Belgian casualties were killed in September and October 1918.

The cemetery was started in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres. The hop store building on the old Vlamertinghe-Poperinghe road was used by field ambulance units. There are 251 burials in the cemetery, all of whom are identified.

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The cemetery is located at a farm which was used as a dressing station and named Hospital Farm by the British forces. The cemetery was used in 1915 and 1917. There are 115 Commonwealth burials and one Belgian war grave.

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The cemetery was in the rear areas behind the British Front Line until April 1918 when the German spring offensive advanced close to the east of Dickebusch village. The cemetery was used between July and November 1917 during the British summer offensive that was the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). The field ambulance units were based in the vicinity and there was a row of huts along the Dickebusch-Brandhoek road used by the medical units from this time. The row of nearby huts was the reason that the cemetery became known as “The Huts”. There are 1,094 burials in the cemetery, all of whom are identified. Many of the casualties are gunners from the artillery positions located in the vicinity.

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There are 83 burials from the First World War, four of which are Gerrman military graves.

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The name of the cemetery is taken from a farm near to it called Irish House by the British troops. The cemetery was started in June 1916 when the 16th (Irish) Division was in the vicinity. It was in use until September 1918. The ground was captured by the German forces between April to end of August 1918. There are 117 Commonwealth burials and commemorations in the cemetery, 77 of whom are identified.

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There are 443 First World War burials in the cemetery.

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The cemetery was started in the grounds of the chateau in December 1914. It was in use until March 1918. German forces occupied the village of Kemmel from April 1918 when the cemetery and the chateau were damaged. There are 1,135 First World War burials in the cemetery and 21 Second World War burials dating from May 1940.

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The cemetery was used for burials from October 1914 to March 1915. There are 25 First World War burials and commemorations in the churchyard.

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The cemetery is believed to have originated from the period of fighting in this area from April 1918 when the German spring offensive made an advance capturing Kemmel village. After the war there were British, French and German burials here. The French graves were removed to the French ossuary at Le-Mont Kemmel and to the French cemetery Saint-Charles-de-Potyze north-west of Ypres. There are no 296 Commonwealth burials and 260 of these are unidentified. There are 94 German graves, most of whom are unidentified.

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The cemetery dates from the autumn battles of 1918 when the German army was being pushed eastwards away from Ypres. The 15th Royal Irish Rifles captured Moorsele village on 14 October. There are 147 First World War burials and 14 German war graves.

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The cemetery was started in January 1917. It was used until mid January 1918. After the Armistice graves were brought into the cemetery and now there are 804 First World War burials. 109 burials are unidentified.

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The cemetery was made in February and March 1916 by the 10th and 11th King's Royal Rifle Corps. It was used again in July and August 1917. The name is taken from the name of a farmhouse “La Belle Alliance” which was located near to the cemetery. There are 60 burials in the cemetery, 10 of which are unidentified.

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The name La Brique comes from the hamlet that was named after the brickworks that was here before the First World War. La Brique cemetery no. 1 was started in May 1915 and open until December 1915. There are 91 burials, of which 4 are unidentified.

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The name La Brique comes from the hamlet that was named after the brickworks that was here before the First World War. The cemetery no. 2, on the opposite side of the road to La Brique cemetery no. 1, was started in February 1915 and used until March 1918. At the time of the Armistice there were 383 burials here. More graves were brought in after the war and now there are 840 burials and commemorations in this cemetery, of which 400 are unidentified.

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The cemetery was started on 1 November 1914 and was in use until April 1918. La Clytte (now known by its Flemish name of De Klijte) was the location of a Brigade Headquarters. After the Armistice graves were brought to the cemetery from the surrounding area. There are now 1,082 burials and commemorations in the cemetery. 844 graves are identified.

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The name of the cemetery comes from a dairy that was near to the burial site. The cemetery was started in November 1914 and used until October 1918. On 25 April the ground was captured by the German army but was retaken by Allied forces in September 1918. There are 751 burials in the cemetery, 180 of which are unidentified.

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La Plus Douve farm was behind the Allied Front Line until May 1918 and was used as a battalion headquarters at times. The farm was also sometimes known as Ration Farm. The cemetery here was begun in April 1915 by 48th (South Midland) Division and was used until May 1918. At that time the ground was captured by the German advancing forces. There are 336 Commonwealth burials.

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The cemetery was started in November 1914 by 1st Battalion East Lancashre Regiment and 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment. It continued to be used until March 1916. The cemetery was in German occupied territory between April and September 1918. There are 256 Commonwealth burials and 13 German war graves.

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The cemetery started as a small group of graves in 1915. Burials were increased here by the German military directorate in Gent during 1916 to 1918.

During the 1930s approximately 10,000 soldiers were brought here from 18 German burial sites around the region of Langemarck and the total number of burials in the cemetery reached about 14,000. About 3,000 of the graves were those of the Student Volunteers who died in the Battle of Langemarck in October and November 1914. As a result of this the cemetery became known as the Student Cemetery - Der Studentenfriedhof. The total number of burials and commemorations in the cemetery is 44,294, of which 24,916 are unidentified remains.

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The cemetery was begun in April 1915 near to a plantation of larch trees. It was also alongside the main gauge railway line to Ypres, hence the name Railway Cutting. It was in use until April 1918. After the Armistice graves were brought to the cemetery from the surrounding smaller burial sites. There are now 856 burials and commemorations in the cemetery, 536 of whom are identified.

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The burial ground contains the remains of 5,237 unknown and 57 identified French soldiers.

There are 85 First World War burials and commemorations in the cemetery.

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The cemetery was in use from October 1914 to June 1918. There are 74 First World War burials or commemorations in the cemetery. 24 of the burials are unidentified.

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The location of this cemetery was several miles west of the Front Lines and out of the range of the long-range German artillery. It was on the main communication route by rail from Poperinge to the French border and Hazebroek. The location of the old railway line is now the location of the N38 main road into Poperinge. Due to the location it was a suitable place for the safe placement of casualty clearing stations.

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is the second largest Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium with a total of 10,755 burials and commemorations. Tyne Cot Cemetery near Passchendaele is the largest.

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The 4th Division began this cemetery in December 1914. The cemetery name is taken from 22 burials in Plot III of men of the London Rifle Brigade who died in January to March 1915. The cemetery was used until March 1918. It was in German occupied territory between April to September 1918. There are 335 Commonwealth burials and 18 German war graves.

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There are 88 First World War burials in the cemetery, almost all of whom died on 7 June 1917, the first day of the Battle of Messines. Many of the casualties were serving with the Royal Irish Rifles when they were killed.

The cemetery is located within a short walk of the water-filled mine crater of Spanbroekmolen, which is preserved as a memorial:

Spanbroekmoelen Mine Crater Memorial — the Pool of Peace

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There are 167 First World War Commonwealth and 9 German burials in the cemetery.

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There are 14 First World War Commonwealth burials in the cemetery. These burials are for men who died when they were prisoners of war in 1916-1917.

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There are 47,864 First World War German burials in the cemetery. The burials were begun in 1917. After the war the remains of 6,340 German military dead had been laid to rest in the cemetery. Between 1955 and 1959 burials in 49 German burial sites were brought into this cemetery from the southern province of Belgian Flanders.

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The cemetery was made between August 1917 and April 1918. It was used again in September 1918. There are 107 First World War Commonwealth burials. 19 of these are unidentified. 60 of these casualties were serving with the New Zealand forces. There is one German burial in the cemetery.

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The cemetery takes its name from the Ferme des Douze Bonniers, which was called “R. E. Farm” by the British forces. It was behind the Allied line until April 1918, the time of the German spring offensive. The burials were started here by the 1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment. They created two sites, cemetery no. 1 on the east side of the farm and cemetery no. 2 on the west side of the farm. The 23 graves in cemetery no. 1 were moved into no. 2 cemetery after the war. There are 179 First World War burials in the cemetery. 11 of the graves are unidentified.

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The cemetery is located on the ramparts of Ypres, close to the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort).

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The cemetery was begun in January 1915 and used until January 1918. There are 202 First World War burials.

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There are 3,547 named military dead buried in the cemetery, including the remains of 609 soldiers in the ossuary.

The cemetery was started in June 1917 at the time of the Battle of Messines. This cemetery was also known as Somer Farm Cemetery No. 1. The 13 burials in Somer Farm Cemetery No. 2 were removed after the war and reinterred in Wytschaete Military Cemetery. The cemetery here was used until March 1918. It was used for burials again in October 1918. There are 91 First World War burials.

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The name of the cemetery is taken from the nearby windmill named “Spanbroekmolen”. What remained of the windmill was located on the German Front Line until it was blown up by one of the huge mines at the start of the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917. 58 First World War burials are contained in the cemetery, all killed on 7 and 8 June 1917. Six of the casualties are commemorated on special memorials as they are believed to have been buried in this cemetery but their graves were destroyed at some point. 43 of the casualties were serving with the Royal Irish Rifles when they died.

The cemetery is located near to the water-filled mine crater of Spanbroekmolen, which is preserved as a memorial:

Spanbroekmoelen Mine Crater Memorial — the Pool of Peace

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The cemetery was started in March 1915 by 2nd Battalion the Suffolk Regiment. Some burials were made later in October 1918. There are 47 First World War burials, 8 of whom are unidentified.

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There was a medical aid post in the farm by the cemetery. The cemetery was in use from December 1914 to March 1918. There are 333 Commonwealth burials and commemorations and two German war graves in the cemetery.

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There was originally more than one Torreken Farm Cemetery, hence the “No. 1” in it's name. It was started by 5th Dorset Regiment in June 1917 during the Battle of Messines. It continued to be in use until April 1918. There are 90 First World War Commonwealth burials and 14 German burials. One of the total of the 104 burials is an unidentified casualty.

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Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either World War. Most of the burials are unidentified.

The dates of death of the soldiers buried at Tyne Cot military cemetery cover four years, from October 1914 to September 1918 inclusive.

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There is one First World War Commonwealth burial in the churchyard. Lieutenant E W Robinson of D Squadron of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers. He was killed on 25 October 1914 is commemorated on a special memorial, believed to have been buried in the cemetery at the time of his death.

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Woods Cemetery was begun in April 1915 by 1st Battalion the Dorset Regiment and 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment. It continued to be used until September 1917. There are 326 First World War burials including many Canadian casualties.

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The cemetery was begun in December 1914 and was originally called Wulverghem Dressing Station Cemetery at that time. By the time of the Armistice there were 162 burials. After the war graves were brought into the cemetery from the surrounding area and other small burial sites. There are 1,010 casualties buried in the cemetery now, of whom 658 are identified.

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This cemetery was created after the end of the First World War, when the burials from a number of smaller burial grounds in the vicinity were brought to this location. The burial sites were: Rest and Be Thankful Farm, Kemmel (23 burials); R. E. (Beaver) Farm, Kemmel (22 burials); Cemetery near Rossignol Estaminet, Kemmel (18 burials); Somer Farm Cemetery No. 2, Wytschaete (13 burials); Gordon Cemetery, Kemmel (19 burials). The cemetery contains 1,002 burials of the First World War. 673 are unidentified, giving a total of 329 identified burials.

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2,613 Commonwealth servicemen are now buried in this cemetery. 1,579 of the graves are identified with 1,034 graves containing the remains of unidentified burials.

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The town cemetery was used from October 1914 when the British Army arrived in the area to May 1915. There are 145 war graves in plots located in amongst the civilian burials. The Extension was also started in October 1914 and was open until April 1915. After the Armistice more graves were brought into the Extension and there are now a total of 598 Commonwealth burials or commemorations in the Extension. There are also 43 Second World War burials in the Extension.

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The cemetery was created after the Armistice when the remains of soldiers from the surrounding area were brought to this place. There are 1,583 burials or commemorations in the cemetery. Only 449 of these are identified. There is one Second World War burial in the cemetery.

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There are four Commonwealth burials in the churchyard. They are all cavalrymen of the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars killed on 26 October 1914.

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