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Ypres area UNESCO funerary and memory sites of the first world war

Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery in Ypres at Zonnebeekseweg 249
The cemetery was created during the First World War and redeveloped in 1920, 1922 and from 1925-1929, when French soldiers were exhumed and brought here as a final resting place from the Flanders Front, the Yser river region and the Belgian coast.
Menin Gate in Ypres on Menenstraat
Its large Hall of Memory contains names on stone panels of 54,395 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Salient but whose bodies have never been identified or found.
Essex Farm Cemetery in Ypres at Diksmuidseweg 179
There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified.
Track X Cemetery in Ypres at Moortelweg 15
The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war.
No Man's Cot Cemetery in Ypres at Moortelweg 6
No Man's Cot Cemetery contains 79 First World War burials. More than half of the graves are of officers and men of the 51st (Highland) Division.
Welsh Cemetery (Caesar's Nose) in Ypres at Moortelweg 7-5
Welsh Cemetery was begun in July 1917, at the spot known then as Caesar's Nose, by the 38th (Welsh) Division, 23 of whose soldiers are buried here
Langemark German war cemetery in Langemark-Poelkapelle at Klerkenstraat 86a
This mass grave contains 24,917 soldiers of whom 7,977 remain unknown. The names of those known are on the surrounding basalt blocks.
The Brooding Soldier (St Julien) memorial in Langemark-Poelkapelle at Brugseweg 123
The memorial commemorates the Canadian First Division's participation in the Second Battle of Ypres of World War I which included fighting in the face of the first poison gas attacks along the Western Front.
Tyne Cot Cemetery in Passendale at Tynecotstraat 26
It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war.
Poligom Wood Cemetery in Zonnebeke at Lange Dreve 5
Surrounded by a wall, the cemetery is laid out in the shape of a polygon.
Buttes New British Cemetery in Zonnebeke at Lange Dreve 17
The cemetery also includes the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing in memory of 383 soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in the period September 1917 to May 1918 and who have no known grave.
Larch Wood Cemetery in Zillebeke at Komenseweg 35
Most of the dead are from the defence of the nearby Hill 60.
The Bluff Crater Cemetry in Zillebeke at Palingbeekstraat 10
The area where the cemetery stands, known by soldiers as "The Bluff", is an artificial ridge in the landscape created by spoil from failed attempts to dig a canal.
Woods Cemetery in Zillebeke at Verbrandemolenstraat 3/1
For much of the war, the front line ran just beyond the trees the cemetery is named for.
Hedge Row Trench Cemetery in Zillebeke at Verbrandemolenstraat 3
The cemetery suffered very severely from shell fire, and after the Armistice the positions of the individual graves could not be found or reconstructed. The headstones are therefore arranged symmetrically round the Cross of Sacrifice.
Spanbroekmolen British Cemetery in Heuvelland at Rijsselstraat 76
The explosion crater, now filled with water, still exists and is called "Spanbroekmolenkrater" or "Lone Tree Crater".
Island of Ireland Peace Park in Mesen at Armentierssteenweg 22
This Tower memorial, however, serves not to "redress the balance" but rather to recall the sacrifices of those from the island of Ireland from all political and religious traditions who fought and died in the war.
Lone Tree Cemetery in Heuvelland at Kruisstraat 21
Some of the men buried here were actually killed by the explosion of the mine placed by the British Royal Engineers under Lone Tree hill at Spanbroekmolen, which was blown around 15 seconds later than planned. The Spanbroekmolen mine formed part of a series of mines under the German lines. It was charged with 91,000 pounds (41,000 kg) of ammonal and set 88 feet (27m) below ground, at the end of a gallery 1,710 feet (520m) long. When detonated on 7 June 1917, its blast formed the "Lone Tree Crater" with a diameter of 250 feet (76m) and a depth of 40 feet (12m).[
Kemmel Hill French Ossuary in Heuvelland at Kemmelbergweg 1
The cemetery was created in 1922 and contains a total of 5,237 unknown French soldiers and 57 identified French soldiers, all commemorated in an ossuary.