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Wulverghem-Lindenhoek
Road Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, was begun in
December 1914 by four battalions of the 5th Division and was called at first Wulverghem
Dressing Station Cemetery. It was used until June 1917, and again in September
and October 1918, and at the Armistice it contained 162 graves. Graves were then
brought in from the surrounding battlefields and smaller burial grounds. Within
these later plots almost the whole period of the war is represented, in particular
the defence of the Kemmel front in April 1918 and the final advance of September
1918. There are now 1,010 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried
or commemorated in this cemetery. Some 352 of the burials are unidentified, but
there are special memorials to two casualties believed to be buried among them
and to seven others buried elsewhere whose graves were destroyed in the fighting
of 1917-18. Information
sourced from Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org. Image
kindly provided by Pierre Vandervelden from his website www.inmemories.com.
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