Commonwealth war cemeteries of the Ypres Salient

The burial grounds ringing Ypres were laid out from 1919 onward to designs by Reginald Blomfield, Herbert Baker and Charles Holden, using Portland stone headstones on a fixed pattern and Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance where plot size allowed. Some grew from dressing stations and aerodromes that stood on the spot; others were concentrated after the armistice from scattered field graves. Each entry gives the unit or hospital that created the site, the architect, and what the register at the gate records.

Places in this collection

  • Dragoon Camp Cemetery — Originally called Villa Gretchen Cemetery after a nearby building, it was renamed for Dragoon House, the British name for another structure…
  • Dozinghem Military Cemetery — The 4th, 47th and 61st Casualty Clearing Stations were set up on this site from July 1917 to take the wounded from the summer offensive, an…
  • Dochy Farm New British Cemetery — The ground was captured by the 4th New Zealand Brigade on 4 October 1917 during the Battle of Broodseinde, but the cemetery itself was made…
  • Dickebusch New Military Cemetery — In use from February 1915 to May 1917, with further burials made in March and April 1918 when the front swung back towards the village. The…
  • Dadizeele New British Cemetery — Dadizele was reached in October 1918 by the 36th (Ulster) and 9th (Scottish) Divisions during the final advance, and the 27 First World War…
  • Croonaert Chapel Cemetery — The cemetery takes its name from a wayside shrine on the Voormezele to Wijtschate road. It was started by the 19th (Western) Division in Ju…
  • Chester Farm Cemetery — British troops gave the farm its English name, and the burial ground beside it was in use from March 1915 to November 1917, the years the f…
  • Cement House Cemetery — Named after a fortified farm on the Langemark to Boezinge road, the plot was started in August 1917 and used until April 1918. After the wa…
  • Canada Farm Cemetery — The farm buildings served as a dressing station during the Third Battle of Ypres, and the 907 men buried here mostly died between June and…
  • Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery — The name comes from Essex House, the building next to the plot, which the 2nd Essex and 2nd Monmouthshire Regiments used when they started…
  • Buttes New British Cemetery — The cemetery sits at the foot of the Butte in Polygon Wood, the old Belgian army firing-range mound that both sides fortified, with the New…
  • Bridge House Cemetery — Named after the farmhouse that stood on the spot, the cemetery was begun by the 59th (North Midland) Division at the end of September 1917…
  • Bleuet Farm Cemetery — The farm held a dressing station during the build-up to the offensive of 31 July 1917, and the cemetery was begun that June. It holds 442 F…
  • Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery — The French Army began the plot at Blauwepoort Farm in November 1914, and Commonwealth units used it from February 1915 to February 1916. Th…
  • Bethleem Farm East Cemetery — Burials began on 8 June 1917, the day after Bethleem Farm was taken during the Battle of Messines, and continued until March 1918. Of the 3…
  • Berks Cemetery Extension — The extension holds 876 First World War burials and also carries the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing, whose sculpted lions face the gra…
  • Bard Cottage Cemetery — Begun in June 1915 beside a house sheltered from view by the canal bank, and kept in use until October 1918, with burials from the 49th (We…
  • Artillery Wood Cemetery — The site lay behind the German front line on the morning of 31 July 1917, and burials began once the Guards Division took the ground during…
  • Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery — The name comes from the Allied airfield that stood next to it, and the first graves were dug by French troops in April 1918. Between July a…
  • Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery — The casualty clearing stations behind Poperinge worked here from 1914 to 1919, and the burial ground grew in the order the men died rather…

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