Tyne Cot WWI Cemetery ( 3587 burials), and Memorial (34949 names of the missing) at Passchendaele,near Ypres,Leper,Belgium.
Tyne Cot WWI Cemetery ( 3587 burials), and Memorial (34949 names of the missing) at Passchendaele,near Ypres,Leper,West Flanders,Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen,Belgium. The largest CWGC Cemetery in the world. CWGC Information below: '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 TYNE COT MEMORIAL forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery and commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known. The memorial stands close to the farthest point in Belgium reached by Commonwealth forces in the First World War until the final advance to victory. The memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by F V Blundstone.
Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Passendale, Zonnebeke, Belgium
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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