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Comines UNESCO funerary and memory sites of the first world war

Prowse Point Military Cemetery at Rue du Petit Pont 6
This cemetery is unique on the Salient for being named after an individual.
Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery on N365
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
There are now 1,143 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
Ploegsteert Memorial at Mesenstraat 152
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
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
The cemetery contains 78 First World War burials, two of them unidentified.
Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery on Chemin du Mont de la Hutte
Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery contains 164 First World War burials.
Rifle House Cemetery on rue Saint Ivon
The cemetery takes its name from a strong point that stood in Ploegsteert Wood of which no trace now remains.