Tyne Cot Memorial

Acknowledgement

Thanks to the following, for their help and assistance with information for these pages, Peter Francis (Commonwealth War Graves Commission), photographs reproduced with the kind permission of Tony Nicholson.

 

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

 

The Tyne Cot Memorial forms the North-Eastern boundry of the Tyne Cot Cemetery. The name 'Tyne Cottages' or 'Tyne Cotts' was given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a group of German blockhouses or pill-boxes close to the level crossing on the Passchendaele - Broodseinde road.

Three of these still remain within the cemetery today, with the largest having been captured on 4th October 1917, there are nearly 12,000 graves of Commonwealth Forces in the cemetery.

 

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

 

The cemetery was first formed in October 1917 when one of the German pill-boxes was used as an Advanced Dressing Station, resulting in 350 burials between October 1917 and March 1918.

 

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

 

The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice with the concentration of 11,500 graves from other battlefields, the cemetery contains approximately 8,400 graves of unknown soldiers, who are commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and the Menin Gate Memorial.

 

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

 

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