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Also at Tyne Cot, behind the Cross of
Sacrifice which was constructed on top of an old German pillbox in the middle of the cemetery, there are 4 German graves, buried alongside Commonwealth graves. These graves are of men that were treated here after the battle, when the pillbox underneath the main
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We can truly say that the whole circuit of the Earth is girdled with the graves of our dead. In the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon Earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the
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to its missing, the Tyne Cot New
Zealand memorial to the missing is integrated within the larger Tyne Cot memorial, forming a central apse in the main memorial wall. The inscription reads: "Here are recorded the names of officers and men of New Zealand who fell in the
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on 12 October 1917, capturing four machine guns and thirty five prisoners, before running his company forward again. He was planning another attack when he was killed by an enemy gunner. On the same day, McGee, who had earned his decoration eight days earlier at
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workers' cottages (Tyne cots). Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery lies on a broad rise in the landscape which overlooks the surrounding countryside. As such, the location was
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for bravery in rushing a machine gun emplacement and rescuing two men from under heavy fire. He was killed saving the second of these men on 6 November 1917.
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Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
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It originally read "2nd Division" until corrected in the 1990s.
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861:"Tyne Cot Cemetery and Visitors' centre – Toerisme Zonnebeke"
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Tyne Cot Cemetery with "Cross of Sacrifice" on the far right
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Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient
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October 1917 and whose graves are known only unto God".
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932:John McGivering, Ed. (20 October 2008).
842:Barnsley: 2003 Leo Cooper Pen and Sword
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1147:YouTube video of the Tyne Cot Cemetery
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1172:World War I cemeteries in Belgium
704:View towards entrance of cemetery
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56:Used for those deceased 1917–1918
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662:Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
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479:King George V, 11 May 1922
359:in the grounds of Tyne Cot
233:UNESCO World Heritage Site
372:on this site and typical
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652:It was designed by Sir
505:Clarence Smith Jeffries
414:3rd Australian Division
390:Battle of Passchendaele
386:important tactical role
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934:"Notes to "The Debt""
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575:Battle of Broodseinde
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467:The King's Pilgrimage
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90:50.88694°N 2.99806°E
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1045:"Tyne Cot Memorial"
889:"Tyne Cot Cemetery"
592:Lieutenant Colonel
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382:Flandern I Stellung
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