Tyne Cot Memorial

GPS Coordinates: 50.887113, 2.998543
Location: Zonnebeke, West Flanders
Record count: 34,994

Ownership: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Directions: Vijfwegestraat, 8980 Zonnebeke, Belgium.

Background: The Tyne Cot Memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery. The Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. It bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known.

'Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. The barn, which had become the centre of five or six German blockhouses, or pill-boxes, was captured by the 3rd Australian Division on 4 October 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele.

The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled on 20 June 1927. It commemorates servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known.

Burial Records

• CWGC Memorial Records, by Interment.net, June 1, 2017, (34,994 records)

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