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We provide detailed records, personal biographies, and cemetery information for soldiers from Falkirk District who served in the Ypres Salient during WWI. Explore our Roll of Honour and other dedicated sections for comprehensive insights.
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Irish House Cemetery
Irish House Cemetery, CWGC, Kemmel, Ypres, owes its name to a small farmhouse 90 metres to the west, not the farm you see today, known to the troops as ‘Irish House’. It was begun in June 1917 by the 16th (Irish) Division, and used at intervals until September 1918. In Row A are the graves of 33 Officers and men of the 1st Gordon Highlanders, killed in action in December 1914 in the 3rd Division's attack on Wytschaete, and reburied here by the 11th Royal Irish Rifles in June
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Lone Tree Cemetery, Spanbroekmolen, Wijtschate
Lone Tree Cemetery, Spanbroekmolen, Wijtschate, CWGC, Ypres, nearly all the graves are of men killed in action on 7 June 1917, during the Battle of Messines. The cemetery lies is what was formerly No Man’s Land next to the German front line that ran through the farm and along the edge of the mine crater. The Royal Irish Rifles have sixty six men buried here. This position here had seen action before June 1917, when on 30 April 1916, the Germans used poison gas against the tre
Apr 127 min read
Spanbroekmolen British Cemetery
Spanbroekmolen British Cemetery, CWGC, Ypres, is named after a windmill which stood nearby and contains the graves of men from the Battalions of the Royal Irish Rifles killed in action on 7 June 1917, and three men killed on 8 June 1917, during the Battle of Messines in 1917. The cemetery stands in a slight valley and there is a 200m path that leads to the cemetery from the road. The nearby farm buildings behind the cemetery are those of Peckham Farm the site of one of the mi
Apr 116 min read
Pond Farm Cemetery
Pond Farm Cemetery, CWGC, Wulverghem (now Wulvergem), Ypres. Pond Farm was in the fields about 800 metres East of Packhorse Farm, and close to Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, and on the North-West side of Pond Farm is the Cemetery. The cemetery was begun by the 3rd Rifle Brigade and the 8th Battalion The Buffs in July 1916 and it was used by fighting units and field ambulances until October 1917. Further burials were made in April and September 1918.
Apr 119 min read
R.E. Farm Cemetery
R.E. Farm Cemetery, CWGC, Wulverghem, Ypres, was the military name given to the Ferme des douze Bonniers. This building remained in Allied hands until April 1918. In December 1914 the 1st Dorsets, 15th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division, began a cemetery (No.1) on the east side of the farm, which was used by fighting units and field ambulances until April 1916, and occasionally in 1917. In January 1915, the same battalion began another cemetery (No.2) on the west side of the farm
Apr 410 min read
Pack Horse Farm Shrine Cemetery
Pack Horse Farm Shrine Cemetery, CWGC, Wulverghem, Ypres. Packhorse Farm was the name given to a farm on the east side of the most direct road from Lindenhoek to Wulverghem, and a little south of it was a wayside shrine, later rebuilt nearer to the farm. The cemetery was one of two made by the 46th (North Midland) Division who occupied this sector in the early summer of 1915. One was at the farm and was removed to Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery, and this one.
Apr 210 min read
Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery
The first burials at Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery, CWGC, Kemmel, Ypres, were made in March 1915 and it continued to be used by fighting units and Field Ambulances until October 1917. It was enlarged after the Armistice when over 100 graves were brought in from the battlefields surrounding Kemmel. A new chalet has been built opposite the cemetery and stands on the site of the old and was used as a Field Ambulance and the Kemmelberg was constantly shelled.
Mar 2916 min read
Mud Corner Cemetery
Mud Corner Cemetery, CWGC, Ploegsteert, Ypres, was the name given to a road junction on the northern edge of Ploegsteert Wood, very close to the front. The cemetery was used from 7 June 1917, when the New Zealand Division captured Messines, to December 1917. The Battle of Messines was the most effective integration of mines with an infantry attack that was supported by an artillery barrage which stupefied the German defenders. For the ANZAC Divisions this was their finest hou
Mar 267 min read
Toronto Avenue Cemetery
Toronto Avenue Cemetery, CWGC, Ploegsteert, Ypres, was named from a communication trench that ran north from Ploegsteert Wood to the British front line in the fields just beyond the edge of the wood. The cemetery contains the graves of officers and men of the 9th Brigade, 3rd Australian Division who died in the Battle of Messines between 7 and 10 June 1917, many from 33rd Battalion, Australian Infantry.
Mar 2510 min read
Lancashire Cottage Cemetery
Lancashire Cottage Cemetery, CWGC, Ploegsteert, Ypres, was begun by the 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, who have eighty-four graves here, and the 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, who have fifty-six men buried here, in November 1914. It was used as a front line cemetery until March 1916 and occasionally later. The cemetery was in German hands from 10 April to 29 September 1918 and they made a few burials in it during that spring and summer.
Mar 2311 min read
Spoilbank Cemetery
Spoilbank Cemetery, CWGC, Ypres (also known as Chester Farm Lower Cemetery or Gordon Terrace Cemetery) was begun in February 1915, and was used by troops holding this sector until March 1918. It is particularly associated with the casualties of the 2nd Suffolks (Plot I, Row B) on "The Bluff" early in 1916. It was enlarged after the Armistice when 125 graves were brought in from the battlefields in the surrounding area. See some of the stories of the men buried here.
Mar 1615 min read
First D.C.L.I. Cemetery, The Bluff
The First D.C.L.I. Cemetery, CWGC, Palingbeek, Ypres, dates from a period earlier than the fighting of 1916. It contains the graves of 51 officers and men of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (one of whom had just obtained a commission in another Regiment) and other soldiers, all of whom died in April-July 1915. There are twenty three men in Row D who were brought here after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefield.
Mar 1311 min read
Hedge Row Trench Cemetery
Hedge Row Trench Cemetery, CWGC, Ypres was begun in March 1915 and used until August 1917, sometimes under the name of Ravine Wood Cemetery. Hedge Row communication trench was located in The Bluff and was constantly targeted by German artillery, and the cemetery suffered very severely from shell fire, and after the Armistice the positions of the individual graves could not be found or reconstructed.
Mar 711 min read
Oak Dump Cemetery
Oak Dump Cemetery, CWGC, Ypres, was made by fighting units in July, August and September 1917 and one grave of 1914 was brought in after the Armistice. The Oak Dump Cemetery was located in the former No Man’s Land and today, is surrounded on three sides by the Pallingbeek Country Club golf course. The 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment, 85th Infantry Brigade, 28th Division, made an attack at the nearby Triangular Wood, located just to the south of Oak Dump Cemetery, on 14 Fe
Feb 216 min read
St Julien Dressing Station Cemetery
The St Julien Dressing Station Cemetery, CWGC, Ypres, was begun in September 1917. By March 1918, the cemetery consisted of Plots I, III and part of Plot II, and contained 203 graves, but it was severely damaged by shell fire in the summer of 1918. The cemetery was increased after the Armistice when graves were brought into Plots II and IV from the battlefields surrounding St. Julien.
Feb 1913 min read
Welsh Cemetery (Caesars's Nose)
Welsh Cemetery (Caesar’s Nose) is another little Cemetery that is located on what was the German front line. It was begun on 31 July 1917, at the spot known on British trench maps as Caesar's Nose, by the 38th (Welsh) Division, twenty three from that Division are buried here. It was used until November 1917. Caesar’s Nose was a German salient that jutted into No Man’s Land and the trenches here were only some 30 yards apart and snipers were a particular problem.
Dec 30, 202511 min read
Colne Valley Cemetery
Colne Valley Cemetery, CWGC, was once an isolated cemetery situated some five hundred yards from the Yser Canal and is a front-line cemetery, today, it is surrounded on three sides by the sprawling Boesinghe Industrial Estate that was developed in the 1990s. The cemetery is named after the Colne Valley Communication trench which went past Glimpse Cottage. Behind the farm house is the preserved Yorkshire Trench. It was uncovered by the ‘Diggers’ in 1997
Dec 27, 20259 min read
Railway Chateau Cemetery
This is a small CWGC Cemetery and Railway Chateau Cemetery (also known as ‘Augustine Street Cabaret’, and ‘L.4 Post’) was begun in November 1914 and used at intervals until October 1916 by troops fighting in the neighbourhood. In Row C, there are the burials of ten men who were killed or wounded, later died of their wounds, on 6 November 1914 when a German shell hit their billet close to the Hotel de Ville in Ypres.
Dec 18, 202511 min read
Dragoon Camp Cemetery
Dragoon Camp Cemetery, CWGC, This was behind German lines until the opening day of Third Battle of Ypres on 31 July when the site was taken by the 38th (Welsh) Division and the cemetery, called at first the Villa Gretchen Cemetery, was begun by the 13th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers on 9 August. It continued in use until October 1917. It seems likely that the burial party form the 13th Royal Welch Fusiliers buried up to forty bodies here that had lain on the battlefield for
Dec 6, 20255 min read
La Belle Alliance Cemetery
La Belle Alliance Cemetery was made in February and March 1916, by the 10th and 11th Battalions King's Royal Rifle Corps, 59th Infantry Brigade, 20th (Light) Division and was used again in July and August 1917. It was originally named from a farmhouse which used to stand some two hundred yards to the north east. The cemetery is located on Coney Street which was one of the communication trenches. This area was also a major hub for rail and tramway traffic, guns sites, and Fiel
Nov 14, 20254 min read
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