Ploegsteert Memorial

GPS Coordinates: 50.737799, 2.882061
Location: Comines-Warneton, Hainaut
Record count: 11,305

Ownership: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Directions: Rue de Messines (N365), 7782 Comines-Warneton, Belgium.

The memorial stands inside Berks Cemetery Extension, on the west side of the N365 opposite Hyde Park Corner Cemetery.

Background: Ploegsteert Memorial commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this area during the First World War and have no known grave. The memorial serves the area from the line Caestre-Dranoutre-Warneton to the north, to Haverskerque-Estaires-Fournes to the south, including the towns of Hazebrouck, Merville, Bailleul and Armentieres, the Forest of Nieppe, and Ploegsteert Wood.

The memorial is located inside the Berks Cemetery Extension.

Names are inscribed on panels inside the memorial. The panel numbers quoted at the end of each record relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels.

Burial Records

• CWGC Memorial Records, by Interment.net, April 13, 2017, (11,305 records)

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