#Comines UNESCO #funerary and memory sites of the first world war
#Prowse Point Military Cemetery
at
#Rue du Petit Pont 6
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This cemetery is unique on the Salient for being named after an individual.
#Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery
on
#N365
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Hyde Park (Royal Berks) Cemetery was begun in April 1915 by the 1st/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment and was used at intervals until November 1917. It contains 83 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and four German war graves.
#Strand Military Cemetery
on
#Rue de Messines
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There are now 1,143 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
#Ploegsteert Memorial
at
#Mesenstraat 152
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The Ploegsteert Memorial lists over 11,000 missing Commonwealth soldiers from the battles, which were fought in the area around Ploegsteert.
#Mud Corner Cemetery
on
#Chemin du Mont de la Hutte
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The cemetery was used from 7 June 1917, when the New Zealand Division captured Messines, to December 1917. All of the burials, save one, are of New Zealand or Australian forces.
#Toronto Avenue Cemetery
on
#rue de Messines
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The cemetery contains 78 First World War burials, two of them unidentified.
#Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery
on
#Chemin du Mont de la Hutte
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Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery contains 164 First World War burials.
#Rifle House Cemetery
on
#rue Saint Ivon
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The cemetery takes its name from a strong point that stood in Ploegsteert Wood of which no trace now remains.