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We provide detailed records, personal biographies, and cemetery information for soldiers from Falkirk District who served in the Ypres Salient during WWI. Explore our Roll of Honour and other dedicated sections for comprehensive insights.
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Torreken Farm Cemetery No.1
Torreken Farm Cemetery (there is now only one) was begun by the 5th Dorset Regiment, 11th Division, in June 1917 and established an aid post in the German dugouts here and it was used as a front line cemetery until April 1918. The cemetery is approximately 100m from the road and through a garden and a field, the field is fenced off with a sign ‘Beware of the Bull.’ Wytschaete (now Wijtschate) was taken by the Germans early in November 1914. It was recovered by Commonwealth fo
Oct 28 min read
Langemark German Military Cemetery
Langemark German Military Cemetery was created in October 1914 by the 234th Reserve Infantry Regiment and the 23rd Reserve Jager Battalion and was known as Langemarck Nord and by 1916 there were 1,107 burials in the cemetery and this number was reduced due to the heavy fighting in the area in 1917 and 1918 so that by the Armistice there were now some 630 burials remaining. Langemark village was overrun by the Germans in April 1915 during their poison gas attack, the German fr
Sep 288 min read
Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood
Buttes New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when a large number of graves, almost all of 1917, but in a few instances of 1914, 1916 and 1918, were brought in from the battlefields of Zonnebeke. The New Zealand Memorial This memorial commemorates 378 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the Polygon Wood sector and have no known grave. 5th Australian Division Memorial Located on the Butte (ridge) overlooking the cemetery, this is a striking obel
Sep 2417 min read
Polygon Wood Cemetery
Polygon Wood Cemetery is an irregular front-line cemetery made between August 1917 and April 1918, and used again in September 1918. There was a German cemetery made between 1914 to 1915 that contained 347 burials, Kriegerfriedhof des Reserve Infantry Regiment 248 am Polygonenwald, that was next to the British cemetery, if you look carefully you will see newer stonework on the backwall and this was the entrance to the German cemetery that was removed.
Sep 2212 min read
Passchendaele New British Cemetery
Passchendaele New British Cemetery was created after the Armistice and is a concentration cemetery with the graves exhumed from the battlefield. The entrance to the cemetery is rather austere and is akin to the entrance to a fortress. There is an Albertina Marker to the right of entrance, they mark the 50th anniversary of the death of King Albert I of Belgium and the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. The 97th Infantry Brigade, 32nd Division launched a night att
Sep 1918 min read
Talana Farm Cemetery
Talana Farm Cemetery is in the fields approximately 400 yards from the Ieper to Boezinge road. The cemetery is named after the historical village in Kwa-Zulu Natal famous for the Battle of Talana Hill during the Second Boer War. The cemetery was begun by French troops in April 1915, taken over by the 1st Rifle Brigade and 1st Somerset Light Infantry in June 1915, and was used by fighting units until March 1918.
Sep 1214 min read
Minty Farm Cemetery
Minty Farm cemetery was begun in October 1917 and used until April 1918 by units fighting on that front. More than a third of the graves are of officers and men of the Royal Artillery. The farm, the name was probably adopted during its occupation by a Wiltshire unit, was at one time used as a German blockhouse until it was captured during the Third Battle of Ypres on the 31 July 1917 by the 1/6th Battalion (Banff and Donside) Gordon Highlanders, 51st (Highland) Division.
Sep 1010 min read
Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate
Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, is on top of the old rampart, over what had been dug-outs. It was begun by French troops in November 1914 and used by Commonwealth units at intervals from February 1915 to April 1918. From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper) formed the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for a while French) forces. From April 1915, the town was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the western fron
Sep 515 min read
Zandvoorde Churchyard
Zandvoorde Churchyard. On 30 October 1914, the village of Zantvoorde (now Zandvoorde) was held by the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, numbering between 300 and 400 men. It was bombarded for over an hour with heavy guns and then taken by the 39th German Division and three attached battalions. The whole front of the 3rd Cavalry Division was driven back to the Klein-Zillebeke ridge. The village could not be retaken and remained in German hands until 28 September 1918.
Sep 34 min read
Boezinge Churchyard
Boezinge Churchyard, CWGC, Captain Edward Frederick Maltby Urquhart, commanding ‘A’ Company, 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Division. Boezinge Churchyard contains a small plot of 15 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, one of which is unidentified. There is also one burial of the First World War in the same plot. The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German in
Aug 313 min read
Nieuwkerke(Neuve Eglise)Churchyard
Nieuwkerke (Neuve-Eglise) Churchyard was captured by the Germans on 14 April 1918, after a stubborn defence by the 49th (West Riding) and 33rd Divisions, and remained in their hands until it was retaken by the 36th (Ulster) Division on 2 September. The churchyard was used by Field Ambulances and fighting units at intervals during the war, particularly, in the early days, by the Cavalry and the 5th Division.
Aug 3012 min read
Watou Churchyard
Watou Churchyard was used at intervals from April 1915 to April 1918. The village was well behind the front lines and much of the 18th and 19th century buildings are intact. The village was used for billeting troops as well as the many camps and dumps that surrounded the village. The troops were entertained with theatrical shows and other entertainment. Today, every July the Watou arts festival takes place. The region around Watou was termed by the local population as de Vrij
Aug 2812 min read
Voormezeele Churchyard
Voormezeele Churchyard contains one British burial from 1914. The Voormezeele Churchyard is one of three Cemeteries in the village the other two being the nearby Voormezeele Enclosures No.1 & No.2 (at one time, there were a total of four, but now reduced to three) and Voormezeele Enclosure No.3 Cemetery, the largest of these burial grounds. The village and the cemeteries were captured by the Germans after very heavy fighting on 29 April 1918.
Aug 233 min read
Dranouter Churchyard
Dranouter Churchyard was used for Commonwealth burials from October 1914 to July 1915 when the Dranoutre Military Cemetery was begun. In 1923, 19 graves were moved from the churchyard to the Dranoutre Military Cemetery when the church was rebuilt. Dranoutre (now Dranouter) was occupied by the 1st Cavalry Division on 14 October 1914. Dranoutre was an important centre for Field Ambulances and for various Battalions who were billeted in the many camps around the village.
Aug 2312 min read
Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery
Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery took its name from an aerodrome that was opposite the cemetery. Technically, the cemetery is situated in No Man’s land between Belgium and France. Despite its name the cemetery does not contain the grave of a single flier! The cemetery was begun by French troops during the Battle of the Lys in April 1918 (Plot I), ninety-nine were buried in this Plot, and this was added to when the British buried seventy five men in the following July and Au
Aug 179 min read
Kemmel Churchyard
Kemmel Churchyard was used from October 1914 to March 1915. The village of Kemmel was near the front line during the greater part of the First World War, and in German hands in the summer of 1918. The Battalions were billeted in the houses, farms, and camps around Kemmel. Camps such as School House Kemmel Camp, White Camp, Gibralta Camp, and La Polka Camp. The road opposite the church was known as Sackville Street on trench maps and led to the front line.
Jun 1013 min read
La Laiterie Military Cemetery
La Laiterie Military Cemetery, named from a dairy farm which was located nearby, was begun in November 1914 and used until October 1918 by units holding this sector of the front. The different plots were, to a great extent, treated as regimental burial grounds; the majority of the graves in Plots II, III and X, for instance, were those of the 26th, 25th and 24th Canadian Infantry Battalions, respectively, and all but one of the graves in Plot VIII are those of the 5th Northum
Jun 616 min read
Grootebeek British Cemetery
Grootebeek British Cemetery, CWGC, Ouderdom, is a beautiful cemetery which is set back from the Bellestraat, a road leading from the N308 connecting Ieper to Poperinge via Vlamertinge, and is located in the hamlet of Ouderdom and near to the village of Reninghelst which were in Allied hands from the autumn of 1914 to the end of the First World War. It was originally called Ouderdom Military Cemetery, but later renamed Grootebeek British Cemetery, from the stream (Grootebeek,
May 2811 min read
Ploegsteert Churchyard
Ploegsteert Churchyard Cemetery, CWGC, contains seven British and two Canadian burials of the First World War made between October 1914 to February 1915. The N365, which goes past the cemeteries at Hyde Park Corner Ploegsteert Memorial Berks Cemetery Extension and Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery on the way from Messines, is a busy road that runs through Ploegsteert village and south to Le Bizet and Armentieres via a roundabout in the village.
May 249 min read
Locre No.10 Cemetery
Locre No.10 Cemetery, CWGC, Dranouter, is one of a number made by the French troops in the Spring of 1918, but the graves of 248 French soldiers were later removed to another burial ground. This is a Concentration Cemetery. The British, Commonwealth, and German graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields after the Armistice. The Germans are in mass graves. The British graves are mainly men from the 2/14th Battalion (2nd London Scottish), 2/16th Battalion (2nd
May 216 min read
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