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Tyne Cot cemetery, the largest British commonwealth cemetery in the world with almost 12,000 soldiers buried there, was a sobering and humbling experience for me. Row after row after row of simple white tombstones of British, Canadian, Australian men who died well before their time.
The name comes from the Northumberland infantrymen who tried to take the ridge here who thought that the German bunkers looked like Tyneside cottages. The white Cross of Sacrifice was built over one of these bunkers, you can still see a small square of one of the bunkers there.
At the rear of the cemetery is a semicircular wall that has the names of almost 35,000 soldiers who have no known grave and didn't fit on the Menin Gate which has another 55,000 names inscribed on it.
If driving, the cemetery is fairly well marked by signs, we didn't need a map to locate it. Leave a Comment Directions: Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332).
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Tyne Cot is the largest British military cemetery on the continent. Here 11956 Commonwealth soldiers were buried. On the memorial one can read 34957 names of missing soldiers. During the 3rd battle of Ypres, from July 31 to November 1917, more than 500.000 British and German soldiers were killed. Address: Passendale
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This is the largest British Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, containing 11,956 graves and the Memorial to the missing, a semicircular wall inscribed with the names of a further 35,000 men whose bodies were never recovered. Leave a Comment Address: Below Passchendaele villageDirections: N303 north of Zonnebeke.
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The Third Battle of Ypres had the village of Passchendaele as its target.
The mud was so deep that men and horses drowned.
General Haig said: 'Good God, did we send men to fight in that?'.
Yes. They did.
Lions led by donkeys.
Go if you can, take an organised tour if you know little or nothing of what happened.
Tyne Cot has a new visitors' centre, which brings you closer to the reality. These were real people.
I have a page on Tyne Cot: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/73696/5499d/
And one on the First World War in Flanders: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/73696/171/
They may help. Leave a Comment
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Tyne Cot is the biggest military cemetery on the continent. The name Tyne Cot refers to the Tyne, a river in the north east of England, and cot is an abbreviation of cottage, because during the war there was a small barn standing here. Leave a Comment
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Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British War cemetery anywhere in the world. The outer walls are 168m long and are made from flint stones from the UK and Italy.
It takes its name from the nickname given to the pillboxes in the area, and is attributed to the Northumberland troops that thought they looked like cottages from their native NE of England.
The cemetery contains the graves of over 11000 soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth plus 4 German soldiers.
The central area with the cross is actually built over a German concrete bunker, which is still visible through some holes in the build.
The walls in the background are engraved with the names of soldiers that have no known grave, and is the overspill from the Menin Gate in the Ypres/Ieper city centre. Leave a Comment Directions: North-East of Ieper/Ypres
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The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of the four memorials to the missing soldiers of the First World war. Even if you are the toughest guy on earth, silence is coming over you if you see all those names of men who fought for freedom. Leave a Comment Directions: It is located about 9 kilometres north east from Ypres (Ieper) on the Tynecotstraat a road leading from the Zonnebeekeweg.
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Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetary isn't actually in the city of Ieper but rather in Passendale, one of the suburbs.
Originally this battlefield cemetery had only 343 graves but it was enlarged after Armistice. It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials, about 12000.
Tyne Cot Memorial is in the background. On Tyne Cot Memorial there are about 35000 names of soldiers whose graves are not known and who died between August 1917 and the end of the war. Leave a Comment Directions: Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat in Passendale.
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View of the Memorial for the Missing, with the engraved names. On the styles in the right circle 34957 names of missing soldiers have an inscription. Address: Passendale
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Although this huge graveyard is a little way from Ieper it really should be visited.
The Cemetery is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road off the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). There is also a visitors centre there with things that belonged to the soldiers buried here. What i thought so moving was that the names and ages of the soldiers were read out through speakers as you walked to the visitors centre - it somehow inpressed on you that they were real people and just how young most of them were. My grandfather fought and was injured in the Somme and this place helped me think of his life during the war years. Leave a Comment Directions: Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332).
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