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Essex Farm Cemetery

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408: 439: 360: 384: 36: 420: 372: 348: 396: 588: 335:(1900–1916), who died at the age of 15. His local paper wrote, 'Pte Valentine Joe Strudwick of the 8th Rifle Brigade, joined up twelve months ago, and at the time of his death...had not reached his sixteenth birthday... a fine example to those of maturer years who have not yet joined up...' 290:, perhaps because a soldier of the 2nd Battalion of the Essex Regiment was an early interment there in June 1915. Twenty eight members of the 11th Battalion of the Essex Regiment were also buried there during 1916. A monument in the cemetery commemorates the composition of the 711: 704: 799: 679: 761: 766: 438: 874: 804: 699: 674: 907: 794: 881: 756: 726: 407: 152: 615: 786: 669: 841: 741: 661: 836: 419: 869: 816: 776: 646: 656: 856: 746: 721: 691: 263: 259: 781: 771: 731: 716: 686: 608: 178: 309:, after witnessing the burial of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, of the 2nd Battery, 1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery, at Essex Farm; Helmer's grave is now lost. 902: 601: 359: 383: 912: 371: 922: 286:, on farmland which was unnamed on pre-war maps; the dressing station was operational from early 1915 until 1918. The name "Essex Farm" commemorates the 266:, also near the Diksmuidseweg and channel. In the northwest corner of the site is the Cross of Sacrifice, on the east side of the Stone of Remembrance. 917: 347: 426: 279: 624: 573: 219: 27: 846: 395: 593: 821: 736: 61: 35: 826: 518: 751: 631: 254:, about 2.5 km from each. The cemetery is located at Site John McCrae, between Diksmuidseweg (N369) and the 183: 474: 811: 283: 111: 651: 851: 234:. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir 332: 318: 141: 519:"Ieper (Ypres) – Belgium – Nearby site: Essex Farm Cemetery, Boezinge – Lieutenant Colonel McCrae" 831: 446: 306: 300: 295: 235: 554: 430: 275: 247: 223: 543: 325:
in 1917 while on scout patrol. He showed conspicuous bravery, stalking and killing enemy
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and has an area of 6,032 square metres (64,930 sq ft).
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which is reported to have been written in May 1915 by
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Eight men of the same unit, all killed the same day
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

50°52′15″N 02°52′23″E / 50.87083°N 2.87306°E / 50.87083; 2.87306
Ypres
West Flanders
Belgium
Sir Reginald Blomfield
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
2023
session
1567-FL11
World War I
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
John McCrae Memorial Site
Ypres
Belgium
Reginald Blomfield
John McCrae Memorial Site
Boezinge
Ieperlee
Duhallow ADS Cemetery
Bard Cottage Cemetery
dressing station
Canadian Field Artillery
Second Battle of Ypres
Essex Regiment
war poem
In Flanders Fields
Lieutenant Colonel

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