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[edit] Military cemetery infobox

Railway Dugouts (Transport Farm)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Railway Dugouts Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery
Used for those deceased 1915–18
Established 1915
Location 50°50′05.5″N, 02°54′07.4″E near Zillebeke, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Total burials 2463, of which 430 are unnamed
Unknown
burials
2
Burials by nation
Allied Powers:

Central Powers:

Burials by war
World War I: 2463
Statistics source: www.wo1.be and Battlefields 14-18

A military cemetery infobox may be used to summarize information about a single military cemetery. The infobox should be added using the {{Infobox Military Cemetery}} template, as shown below:

{{Infobox Military Cemetery
|name=
|body=
|image=
|caption=
|use_dates=
|established=
|designer=
|coordinates=
|nearest_town=
|total=
|unknowns=
|commemorated=
|by_country=
|by_war=
|source=
}}
  • name – the formal name of the cemetery.
  • body – the body responsible for administering the cemetery (e.g. the Commonwealth War Graves Commission).
  • imageoptional – an image of the cemetery. The image must be given in the form [[Image:Example.jpg|300px]]; in particular, the thumb attribute must not be selected.
  • captionoptional – the text to be placed below the image.
  • use_dates – the period during which the people interred at the cemetery died, given as a dash-separated pair of numbers (e.g. "1915–18"). This often corresponds to the dates of a particular conflict.
  • established – the date when the cemetery was established or first used.
  • designeroptional – the person or group that designed the layout of the cemetery.
  • coordinates – the location of the cemetery, given as a coordinate pair by using {{coor dms|dd|mm|ss|N|dd|mm|ss|E|}}.
  • nearest_townoptional – in cases where the location is given as a coordinate pair, the town nearest to the cemetery.
  • total – the total number of people buried in the cemetery.
  • unknownsoptional – the number of unknown individuals buried in the cemetery.
  • commemoratedoptional – the number of individuals commemorated (without a known grave) in the cemetery.
  • by_nationoptional – a breakdown of burials by nation (or sub-national entity, where appropriate). This is usually formatted as a bulleted list.
  • by_waroptional – a breakdown of burials by the war during which the people were killed. This is usually formatted as a bulleted list.
  • sourceoptional – a source for the statistics in the infobox.