Tuileries British Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

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Tuileries British
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Used for those deceased 1915
Established	1915
Location	50°50′23″N, 02°55′11″E near Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by	W C Von Berg
Total burials	98
Burials by nation
Allies of World War I: United Kingdom: 95 France: 3
Burials by war
World War I: 98
Statistics source: WW1Cemeteries.com

Tuileries British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I located near Ypres (now Ieper) in Belgium on the Western Front.

The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war.^[1]

[edit] Foundation

The cemetery's Cross of Sacrifice

This cemetery's name means "tile factory", as it was begun in the grounds of a tile works in 1915.^[2] The chimneys of the tile works were very visible and provided a means for the opposing side to calibrate their shells. This led to the cemetery itself being heavily shelled and the sites of most of the original graves were lost.^[2]^[3] Most of the gravestones are positioned around the edges^[2] of the otherwise empty-looking cemetery, and are marked "known to be buried in this cemetery", with the default additional phrase "Their glory shall not be blotted out", a line suggested by Rudyard Kipling.^[4]^[5]

[edit] References

^ First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
^ ^a ^b ^c TUILERIES BRITISH CEMETERY. ww1cemeteries.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
^ CWGC :: Cemetery Details. www.cwgc.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
^ Moore, Steve and Barbara. Ypres Salient September 2004. www.ypressalient.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
^ Honigsbaum, Mark. Pro patria mori?. commentisfree.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.