Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium – the largest Commonwealth War grave cemetery with dead from the First or Great War 1914-1918


There are now 11,952 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery. 8,365 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.


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