British Cemeteries in the Ypres Salient

Ypres Salient War Graves

British Military Cemeteries & Memorials

Ypres Salient War Graves Index page British French German The Ypres Salient The Ypres Salient Map Battles Ypres/Ieper Poperinge Museums Cemeteries Accommodation 1914-1918 Reference The Western Front The Ypres Salient Second Battle of Ypres The Somme War Graves Tracing relatives Resources & Links Bibliography Remembering Poppy Umbrella Hear Last Post 'In Flanders Fields' Armistice Day in Ypres Flanders Memorial Poppy Gardens of Remembrance Interpretations Poems About the site Who we are Rembrella		Cemeteries 137 of the 618 Commonwealth War Grave Commission burial grounds for British military dead in Belgium are located in the First World War battlefields of the Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders. With the city of Ypres at its centre the area of the Salient has four towns on its circumference: Poperinge in the west, Langemark in the north, Becelare in the east and Mesen (Messines) in the south. Cemeteries featured on this website:
		Essex Farm Military Cemetery
		Tyne Cot Cemetery
		Graves of Unknown Soldiers In the Ypres Salient battlefields there are approximately 90,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers whose remains cannot be identified for burial in a grave marked with their name. Within the 137 burial grounds in the Ypres Salient there are 40,000 headstones which are marked with the words 'Known unto God'. These headstones mark the resting place for the remains of a soldier whose identity could not be established except that he could be identified as British. Four Memorials to the Missing In addition to the 40,000 unidentified bodies there are 50,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers whose remains were never found during or after the First World War. These 50,000 officers and men listed as 'missing in action' are commemorated by name on four memorials in Belgium. These four memorials cover the whole period of the First World War, except the months of August and September 1914. They serve the whole area of the First World War battlefields of the Ypres Salient, stretching from Langemark on the northern edge of the Ypres Salient to four kilometres south of Mesen (Messines) in the south.
		The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres (Ieper)
		Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele (Passendale)
		Buttes New British Cemetery and Memorial, Zonnebeke
		Messines Ridge British Cemetery and Memorial Memorial to the officers and men of New Zealand who fell in or near Messines in 1917 or 1918 and who have no known grave.
		Acknowledgements Extracts of text by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Map and photographs © www.greatwar.co.uk Copyright Joanna Legg & Graham Parker © 2002 All rights reserved