The main entrance to the Essex Farm Cemetery (1914-1918) with the Cross of Sacrifice & 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division memorial in Ypres, Belgium

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Essex Farm Cemetery is a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground within the John McCrae Memorial Site near Ypres, Belgium. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and has an area of 6,032 square metres (64,930 sq ft).

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Size: 3840px × 5760px
Location: Essex Farm Cemetery, Diksmuidseweg, 8900 Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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