The Aristocrats Cemetery in Zillebeke Churchyard, Belgium.
In the early days of WWI the dead were often buried in local churchyards near where they were killed. These 1914 burials in Zillebeke Churchyard reflect the officer class of that point in the war as they were nobility or sons of the wealthy and the well-connected and is therefore known as the Cemetery of the Aristocrats. The cemetery deviates from almost every other CWGC burial ground by having two private memorials, breaking the "equality in death" principle under which the Commission was founded. The private memorials are a headstone dedicated to Lieutenant John Henry Gordon Lee-Steere and the tomb of Second Lieutenant Baron Alexis George de Gunzburg.
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Location: Zillebeke Churchyard, Zillebeke, Ypres, Belgiumm
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