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Prowse Point Military Cemetery

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More recently, the remains of Private Richard Lancaster of the Lancashire Fusiliers, plus two others unidentified, were found and were buried at Prowse Point with full military honours. The ceremony was attended by his granddaughter.
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at this stand and the site (and thus cemetery) was named after him. This makes the cemetery unique on the Salient for being named after an individual.
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This site featured heavy fighting at numerous points in the war. As such, remains of combatants are still occasionally being discovered in the area.
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Private Richard Lancaster's grave flanked by two unknowns, three weeks after being interred at Prowse Point
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The cemetery is on the site of a stand made by the 1st Battalions of the
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The cemetery was begun in November 1914 and continued to be used until
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Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
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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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Wereledoorlog I in de Westhoek record on Harry Wilkinson
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Prowse Point Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
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but his body was recovered and buried here in 2001.
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Wereledoorlog I in de Westhoek record on W A Connor
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Prowse Point Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Prowse Point Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery
50°44′38″N 02°53′55″E / 50.74389°N 2.89861°E / 50.74389; 2.89861
Ypres
West Flanders
Belgium
W H Cowlishaw
Allied Powers
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Central Powers
Germany
World War I
UNESCO World Heritage Site
2023
session
1567-WA12
WW1Cemeteries.com
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
First World War
Ypres Salient
Western Front
United Kingdom
Albert I of Belgium
British Empire
Belgium
Hampshire Regiment

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