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Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery

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regiments in October 1915, named "Canadian Cemetery, Strand" after its 28 Canadian graves and the nearby Strand trench. The cemetery was used by New Zealanders in 1917.
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The cemetery was founded by enclosing a number of small cemeteries made by individual regiments. The grounds were established in December 1914 as the "
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It fell into German hands on 10 April 1918 and remained occupied until 29 September, when the
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Cemetery", expanding in April 1915 when the "Bucks Cemetery" was started by the
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Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Belgium
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery
50°44′13″N 02°53′59″E / 50.73694°N 2.89972°E / 50.73694; 2.89972
Ploegsteert
West Flanders
Belgium
W H Cowlishaw
Allied Powers
United Kingdom
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
World War I
UNESCO World Heritage Site
2023
session
1567-WA15
WW1Cemeteries.com
CWGC
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
First World War
Ypres Salient
Ploegsteert Wood
Western Front
cemetery
United Kingdom
Albert I of Belgium
British Empire
Belgium
Somerset Light Infantry

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