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Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery


laughton

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This cemetery appears to also contain men of the New Zealand Division lost at Messines, so the records were collected in support of those cases. In particular checking from remains that were recovered further east than where it was expected New Zealand men to have progressed on 7 June 1917 (see this post).

 

As with the other cemetery pages, I will add the trench map coordinates (TMC) to the CWGC description of the cemetery and assemble the ZIP Files for the burial records. Those will be linked here once they are collected and posted: (done)

 

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The cemetery 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, the present Plot I.

 

Graves were then brought in from the surrounding battlefields and the following smaller burial grounds:-

 

  • AUCKLAND CEMETERY, MESSINES 28.U.7.a.8.7, on the North bank of the Douve between Messines and Wulverghem, contained the graves of twelve New Zealand soldiers (including nine of the 2nd Auckland Regiment) who fell on the 7th June, 1917.
    • also noted on the DAL to be known as "Stinking Farm Cemetery"
       
  • CORNWALL CEMETERY, MESSINES 28.U.7.a.5.6, 150 metres West of Auckland Cemetery, contained the graves of 21 soldiers from the United Kingdom (including 20 of the 1st D.C.L.I.) who fell in December, 1914-January, 1915.
    • also noted on the DAL to be known as "Stinking Farm Cemetery"
    • a number of them are on COG-BR 1837984
       
  • FRENCHMAN's FARM, WULVERGHEM 28.N.34.b.85.25, nearly 600 metres North of the village, contained several groups of graves; and in them were buried 29 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one French soldier who fell in 1914-15.
     
  • NEUVE-EGLISE NORTH CEMETERY 28.T.9.c.7.9 was on the Neuve Eglise-Lindenhoek road. It contained the graves of 20 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell on the 2nd and 3rd September, 1918, and of whom 16 belonged to the 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers.
     
  • NEUVE-EGLISE RAILWAY HALTE (or RAILWAY SIDING) CEMETERY 28.T.14.b.9.4 was at the light railway station on the South side of the village. It contained the graves of 14 soldiers from the United Kingdom (including seven of Queen Victoria's Rifles) who fell on the 5th January, 1915. These formed Plots II-V. 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.
    • found it from the description of the Queen Victoria Rifles as they are on COG-BR 1837933
       

There are now 1,010 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 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. 

Others with large groups:

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Some notes:

Edited by laughton
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Richard,

It could be a Canadian, shot down on 25th April 1918 in a Camel. It's going to be impossible to prove, though, from what we have - so many were lost in the vicinity.

Trevor

 

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