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Details
This Cemetery lies on the south side
of the road from Poperinghe to Elverdinghe, about 1 1/2 kilometres west
of Elverdinghe. It is 5 1/2 kilometres from Poperinghe Station, 4 3/4
kilometres from Vlamertinghe Station, and 7 from Ypres Station. It is
approached from the road. It contains 407 British graves and 3 German.
The Great War Stone is placed on the
east side of the Cemetery, and the Cross at the North West corner. The
boundaries are defined by pollarded willows.
The Cemetery was used continuously between
the 9th June, 1915 and the 5th August, 1917, the 62nd,16th, 9th, 11th,
129th and 130th Field ambulances successively having a Dressing Station
close by. The burials in Plots 1 and 2 range from June, 1915, to June,
1917 , and they are not grouped in order of date; they include a large
number of graves in Plot 2, Row E, containing the remains of 41 men of
the 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, who were killed on parade in
December, 1915, by one shell from a naval gun in Houthulst Forest. The
graves in Plot 3 run in order of date of death, and show the successive
occupations of Elverdinghe Chateau by the 38th (Welsh) Division, the Guards
Division, and units of the Roval Artillery. Until the British advance
in July, 1917, the Cemetery was considered to lie just outside, and the
village just within, the area generally covered by German shell fire.
Number of burials by Unit
| Royal Field Artillery |
44
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Monmouthshire Regiment |
43
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| Welsh Regiment |
34
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Royal Garrison Artillery |
27
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| South Wales Borderers |
21
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|
Somerset Light Infantry |
20
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| Duke of Wellington's
(West Riding Regiment) |
16
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|
Irish Guards |
15
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| Royal Welsh
Fusiliers |
14
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|
Coldstream
Guards |
12
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| York & Lancaster
Regiment |
11
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|
Machine Gun Corps(inf) |
11
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| Rifle Brigade |
10
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|
Royal Engineers |
10
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| Grenadier Guards |
9
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|
Hampshire Regiment |
8
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| Labour Corps |
8
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|
King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
7
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| Scots Guards |
6
|
|
King's Royal Rifle Corps |
6
|
| Durham Light Infantry |
5
|
|
King's Liverpool Regiment |
5
|
| King's Shropshire Light
Infantry |
5
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|
North Staffordshire
Regiment |
5
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| West Yorkshire Rgt. |
5
|
|
Lancashire Fusiliers |
4
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| East Lancashire Regiment |
3
|
|
Gloucestershire Regiment |
3
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| Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry |
3
|
|
Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
3
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| Sherwood Foresters (Notts
& Derbyshire Rgt,) |
3
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|
Leicestershire Regiment |
2
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| Royal Army Medical Corps |
2
|
|
Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
2
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| Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
2
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|
Suffolk Regiment |
2
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| Welch Guards |
2
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|
Devonshire Regiment |
1
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| East Yorkshire Regiment |
1
|
|
Essex Regiment |
1
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| Labour Bn. Royal Highlanders |
1
|
|
Lancashire Hussars (Yeomanry) |
1
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| Northamptonshire Regiment |
1
|
|
Northumberland Fusiliers |
1
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| Pembroke Yeomanry |
1
|
|
Royal Army Service Corps |
1
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| Royal Irish Fusiliers |
1
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|
Royal Scots (Lothian
Regiment) |
1
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| Royal Sussex Regiment |
1
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|
Seaforth Highlanders |
1
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| Identified UK burials |
401
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| Unidentified UK burials |
6
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| German burials |
3
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| Total burials |
410
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Awards buried in this cemetery:-
Maj. J. F. BLIGH MC. "D"
Bty. 121st Bde Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action at Ypres 01/07/17.
Age 24. Plot 3, G-19
Capt. J. CHAMBERLAIN MC. 3rd Bn South Wales Borderers, attd 14th
Bn. Welsh Regiment. 14/05/17. Age 35. Plot 2, B-2
Capt. Ch. O'Reilly EDWARDS MC. 57th Field Coy. Royal Engineers.
Killed in Action 13/12/15. Age 33 Plot 2, J-3
Serjt. E. J. GIBBS MM. Prince of Wales Coy. 1st Bn. Welsh Guards.
Died of wounds 30/06/16. Age 22. Plot 1, D-9
Lt. Col. F. G. HOWARD MVO, DSO. 49th Division Royal Engineers.
09/10/15. Plot1, I-1
Serjt. A. HUNT Serbian Medal (Gold). 37507. 270th Siege Bty. Royal
Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 01/07/17. Age 27. Plot 3, D-21
2nd Lt. H.A. KING MC. "D" Bty, 121st Bde Royal Field
Artillery. Killed in action 01/07/17. Age 20. Plot 3, C-21
2nd Lt. F.M. MYERS MC. 11th Bn Suffolk Regiment attd.11th Wing,
Royal Flying Corps.14/02/17. Plot 3, A-8
Cpl. D. TOWERS MM. 25452. 17th Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers, attd.
115th Trench Mortar Bty. 02/02/17. Plot 2, A-7
Also buried in this Cemetery :-
Pte G. Watkins 8139 13th Welsh
Regt executed for desertion 15/05/17 Plot 3 C-12
Pte R. Hope 23726 1st Royal Inniskilling
Fusiliers executed for desertion 5/7/17 Plot 3 G-12
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