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Details
VLAMERTINGHE is a village and commune
in the province of West Flanders, 5 kilometres from Poperinghe and 4,5
kilometres from Ypres.
The Cemetery lies to the west of the village, a little to the north of
the main Poperinghe Ypres road.The village was, during the greater part
of the war, at the extreme normal range of the German artillery, and was
used from time to time as Headquarters both by our Heavy Artillery and
by our Field Ambulances. The Hop Store Cemetery was on the safer side
of the village; but it remained a small cemetery owing to its position
between a hedge and the premises of the Hop Store itself. The site is
low and marshy, particularly at the west end. It was drained by the Royal
Engineers early in 1917, and recently a broad moat has been constructed
on three sides. It was opened in May, 1915, and the burials are almost
exclusively of 1915 and 1917.The name of a soldier buried in the cemetery,
whoses grave cannot be exactly located, appears on a special memorial.The
boundaries of the Cemetery are defined by pollarded willows.
The Register records particulars of 249
War Graves, including 58 of the Royal Artillery.The grave of a French
soldier has been removed.
Number of burials by Unit
| Royal Field Artillery |
37
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Royal Engineers |
22
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| Durham Light Infantry |
21
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|
Royal Garrison Artillery |
21
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| 16th Bn.
London Regt. (Queen's Westminster Rifles) |
8
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King's Liverpool
Regt. |
8
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| Royal Army Service Corps |
8
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|
York and Lancaster Regt. |
8
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| West Yorkshire
Regt. |
7
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|
Loyal North
Lancashire Regt. |
6
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| Royal Army Medical Corps |
6
|
|
King's Shropshire Light
Infantry |
5
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| Northumberland Fusiliers |
5
|
|
Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
5
|
| Sherwood Foresters (Notts.&
Derbys Regt.) |
5
|
|
Buff's (East Kent Regt.) |
4
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| Leicestershire Regt. |
4
|
|
Rifle Brigade |
4
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| Royal Fusiliers |
4
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|
Royal Irish Fusiliers |
4
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| Seaforth Highlanders |
4
|
|
1st King's Dragoon Guards |
3
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| 9th Queen's Royal Lancers |
3
|
|
Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry |
3
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| Essex Regt. |
3
|
|
Royal Sussex Regt. |
4
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| Wiltshire Regt. |
3
|
|
5th Dragoon Guards |
2
|
| Duke of Wellington's
(West Riding Regt.) |
2
|
|
King's Royal Rifle Corps |
2
|
| Lincolnshire Regt. |
2
|
|
Machine Gun Corps |
2
|
| Manchester Regt. |
2
|
|
Royal Warwickshire Regt. |
2
|
| 11th Prince Albert's
Own Hussars |
1
|
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12th Bn London Regt.
(The Rangers) |
1
|
| 15th King's Hussars |
1
|
|
18th Queen Mary's Own
Hussars |
1
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| 2nd Bn London Regt,
(Royal Fusiliers) |
1
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|
Army Cycling Corps |
1
|
| Bedfordshire Regt. |
1
|
|
Border Regt. |
1
|
| East Yorkshire Regt. |
1
|
|
Irish Guards |
1
|
| King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
1
|
|
Leinster Regt. |
1
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| Middlesex
Regt. |
1
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|
Monmouthshire
Regt. |
1
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| North Staffordshire
Regt. |
1
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Oxford and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry |
1
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| Royal Horse Artillery |
1
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|
Somerset Light Infantry |
1
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| South Lancashire Regt. |
1
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|
Suffolk Regt. |
1
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| York and Lancaster Regt. |
1
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|
Yorkshire Regt. |
1
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| Identified UK Burials |
250
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| Canadian Burials |
1
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| Total Burials |
251
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Awards buried in this cemetery
Capt. O. HAIRSINE MC.
Royal Armu Medical Corps. 07/06/17.1.A.56.
Serj. J.W. HUSSEY Cross of St. George (Russian). 1st Bn. Royal
Irish Fusiliers. Killed in action at St.Julien, 25/05/15.1.D.13
C.S.M. E.B. MATTHEWS DCM. 101st Field Coy. Royal Engineers. Killed
in action at Ypres, 11/06/17.
Also buried in this cemetery
Special memorial to:
Pte W.H. BLANCHARD.
1st Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.). 03/05/18. near 1.A.1.
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