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Duhallow ADS Cemetery

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396: 432: 36: 420: 408: 317:. The position, north of Ypres, was used as an Advanced Dressing Station (a first aid post set back from the main front but within easy reach of it) for Commonwealth troops in the area. This led to the establishment of the cemetery for those who did not survive; this cemetery was expanded by the addition of the dead from nearby Casualty Clearing Stations at the front line itself. 353:", a special memorial for soldiers whose graves were destroyed in later battles. Two blocks in the cemetery (along with stones for the individual soldiers) commemorate those buried in the nearby Malakoff Farm and Fusilier Wood cemeteries, which were destroyed by shelling. Later, Duhallow Blocks were also placed in other British cemeteries. 395: 728: 721: 816: 696: 431: 778: 383:
by the British authorities on 24 January 1918 for being absent from roll call on 27 November 1917. He was known to suffer from "nerves" and was executed partially to set an example to his battalion's 300 new recruits.
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aircraft bombing a Commonwealth ammunition truck. The cemetery was further expanded after the armistice by the concentration of isolated graves.
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Additionally, there are graves for the men of the 13th Company Labour Corps who were killed by a
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A "Duhallow Block" and related memorials for individual soldiers
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Commonwealth casualty, killed during the retreat in May 1940.
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Duhallow ADS, including three of the 54 German graves.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Duhallow ADS Cemetery
50°51′51″N 02°52′39″E / 50.86417°N 2.87750°E / 50.86417; 2.87750
Ypres
West Flanders
Belgium
Reginald Blomfield
Allied Powers
United Kingdom
Canada
Newfoundland
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
British West Indies
France
Undivided India
Belgium
Central Powers
Germany
World War I
World War II
WW1Cemeteries.com
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
First World War
Ypres
Western Front
United Kingdom
Albert I of Belgium
British Empire

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