Buttes New British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on the Western Front .
9-1656: British Cemetery may refer to Europe [ edit ] Buttes New British Cemetery , Belgium Messines Ridge British Cemetery , Belgium Poelcapelle British Cemetery [ nl ] , Belgium Ancre British Cemetery , France Contay British Cemetery , France Mikra British Cemetery , Greece British Cemetery of Funchal , Madeira, Portugal British Cemetery Elvas , Portugal British Cemetery, Lisbon , Portugal Bilbao British Cemetery , Spain British Cemetery in Madrid , Spain English Cemetery [ Wikidata ] , Spain South America [ edit ] Cementerio Británico , Buenos Aires, Argentina Cemitério dos Ingleses, Gamboa , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cemitério dos Ingleses, Recife , Brazil British Cemetery of Bahia , Salvador, Brazil Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion , Paraguay - section of cemetery known as British Cemetery British Cemetery, Callao , Peru The British Cemetery Montevideo , Uruguay Asia [ edit ] Sherpur Cantonment , Kabul, Afghanistan Golaghat British Cemetery , India Delhi War Cemetery , India See also [ edit ] British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia English Cemetery (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
18-604: Is a forest located between Ypres and Zonnebeke , West Flanders , Belgium . It was the scene for several battles during the First World War and there are at least two cemeteries of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in the immediate vicinity of the wood. Polygon Wood, near the village of Zonnebeke , was the location of a number of battles during the First World War, beginning in late 1914. It took its name from its shape on maps of
27-872: The Governor-General of Australia , Michael Jeffery and the Prime Minister of New Zealand , Helen Clark . The cemetery also includes the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, designed by the English architect Charles Holden , 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. Polygon Wood Polygon Wood ( Dutch : Polygoonbos , French : Bois du Polygone )
36-537: The area were brought to a location eight kilometres to the east of Ieper and re-buried in what was named Buttes New British Cemetery. The cemetery is located in the northeastern corner of Polygon Wood. The name is derived from an old butte, used as a rifle range by the Belgian Army prior to the war, which is on the western side of the cemetery. A memorial to the Australian 5th Division is located on top of
45-771: The area. The wood had been held by the Germans since April 1915 but was captured by the Australian 5th Division in the Battle of Polygon Wood , which took place in the period from September to October 1917. Abandoned during the German spring offensive in March–April 1918, the area was the scene of further fighting in September 1918 when it was seized by the 9th (Scottish) Division . The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains two cemeteries in or next to Polygon Wood. The first
54-631: The butte; this memorial was constructed with the assistance of German prisoners-of-war. Polygon Wood Cemetery is nearby. Buttes New British Cemetery contains the remains of 2,108 Allied soldiers, the majority of whom are unknown. Over half of the burials are British; 564 are soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force , 162 soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and five were from Canada. There are also 30 burials of unknown nationality. Most of
63-462: The dead were killed during 1917, but some date from fighting in the area in 1914, 1916 and 1918. A memorial service is held every year at the cemetery on Anzac Day , 25 April. Bodies continue to be occasionally discovered in the area and are often interred at the cemetery; five Australian soldiers whose remains were found in 2006 by a drainlayer were buried in October 2007 in a ceremony attended by
72-496: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title British Cemetery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Cemetery&oldid=1161123355 " Categories : British military memorials and cemeteries Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Pages using interlanguage link with
81-549: The wikidata parameter Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Buttes New British Cemetery Many of the men buried in the cemetery died as a result of the conditions in the trenches located in the Polygon Wood Sector of the Ypres Salient during the winter of 1917 to 1918. After the war, a number of the dead interred in
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