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Tyne Cot Memorial and Cemetery
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery. The names of those from United Kingdom units are inscribed on Panels arranged by Regiment under their respective Ranks.
The names of those from New Zealand units are inscribed on panels within the New Zealand Memorial Apse located at the centre of the Memorial.
34 949 Identified Casualties
Victoria Cross Recipients
- Lieutenant Colonel Philip Eric Bent VC., DSO. (Twice mentioned in Despatches) 9th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment, died 1st October 1917, aged 26. Panel 50 to 51
- Corporal William Clamp VC. 6th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment, died 9th October 1917, aged 26. Panel Reference Panel 52 to 54 and 162A.,
- Lance Corporal Ernest Seaman VC., MM. 2nd Bn., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died 29th September 1918, aged 25. Panel Reference Panel 70 to 72.
Tyne Cot Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds, including the following:
- Iberian South Cemetery and Iberian Trench Cemetery, Langemarck, 1,200 metres North of Frezenberg, close to a farm called by the Army "Iberian". These contained the graves of 30 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in August-September 1917, and March 1918.
- Kink Corner Cemetery, Zonnebeke, on the road to Frezenberg, containing the graves of 14 soldiers from the United Kingdom, nine from Canada and nine from Australia, who fell in September-November 1917.
- Levi Cottage Cemetery, Zonnebeke, near the road to Langemarck, containing the graves of ten soldiers from the United Kingdom, eight from Canada and three from Australia, who fell in September-November 1917.
- Oostnieuwkerke German Cemetery, in the village of Oostnieuwkerke, containing the graves of 20 soldiers and 2 airmen from the United Kingdom and two soldiers from Canada who fell in 1915-1917.
- Praet-Bosch German Cemetery, Vladsloo, in the forest on the road from Kortewilde to Leke. Here were buried six officers of the R.F.C. and R.A.F. who fell in 1917-18.
- Staden German Cemetery, on the South-East side of the road to Stadenberg, containing the graves of 14 soldiers from the United Kingdom and ten from Canada who fell in 1915-1917.
- Waterloo Farm Cemetery, Passchendaele, 650 metres North-East of 's Gravenstafel, containing the graves of ten soldiers from Canada, seven from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand, who fell in 1917-18.
- Zonnebeke British Cemetery No.2, on the road between Zonnebeke and Broodseinde, in which the Germans buried 18 men of the 2nd Buffs and 20 of the 3rd Royal Fusiliers who fell in April 1915.
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332).
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'Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. The barn, which had become the centre of five or six German blockhouses, or pill-boxes, was captured by the 3rd Australian Division on 4 October 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele.
One of these pill-boxes was unusually large and was used as an advanced dressing station after its capture. From 6 October to the end of March 1918, 343 graves were made, on two sides of it, by the 50th (Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions, and by two Canadian units. The cemetery was in German hands again from 13 April to 28 September, when it was finally recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the Belgian Army.
The names of those from United Kingdom units are inscribed on Panels arranged by Regiment under their respective Ranks.
The names of those from New Zealand units are inscribed on panels within the New Zealand Memorial Apse located at the centre of the Memorial.
There are two registers for this site - one for the cemetery and one for the memorial. The cemetery register is in the gatehouse at the entrance to the cemetery, and the memorial register is in the left hand rotunda of the memorial as you face the memorial.
The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders covering the Ypres Salient area.
The Tyne Cot Memorial bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculptures by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett on 20 June 1927.
The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station. The original battlefield cemetery of 343 graves was enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele, Langemarck and from a few small burial grounds. It is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials.
There are now 11,956 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery, 8,369 of these are unidentified.
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