Hedge Row Trench Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Hedge Row Trench
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Used for those deceased 1915-1917
Established March 1915
Location near Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by J R Truelove
Total burials 98
Burials by nation
Allies of World War I:
Burials by war
World War I: 98
Statistics source: WO1.be

Hedge Row Trench Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War 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]

Contents

Foundation

The cemetery, also known as Ravine Wood Cemetery, was founded in March 1915 and closed in August 1917.[2] Being directly on the front line, the cemetery was repeatedly shelled and the original locations of the graves could not be established.[3] The majority[4] of the stones are therefore arrayed in a circle around the Cross of Sacrifice and are marked "known to be buried in this cemetery",[5] with the default additional phrase "Their glory shall not be blotted out", a line suggested by Rudyard Kipling.[6][7]

The cemetery was designed by J R Truelove.[2]

Other cemeteries on "The Bluff"

References

  1. ^ First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
  2. ^ a b "CWGC :: Cemetery Details". www.cwgc.org. http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=53103&mode=1. Retrieved 2008-05-05. 
  3. ^ "Wereldoorlog in de Westhook - Hedge Row Trench". www.wo1.be. http://www.wo1.be/eng/database/dbDetail.asp?TypeID=6&SubTypeID=19&ItemID=5697. Retrieved 2008-05-05. 
  4. ^ The main sources imply that all of the gravestones are in a circle around the Cross of Sacrifice. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission plan of the cemetery, as confirmed by the sources' own photographs, shows that there are also a non-symmetrical number of gravestones against each of the four walls.
  5. ^ "HEDGE ROW TRENCH CEMETERY". ww1cemeteries.com. http://ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/hedgerowtrenchcemetery.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-05. 
  6. ^ Moore, Steve and Barbara. "Ypres Salient September 2004". www.ypressalient.co.uk. http://www.ypressalient.co.uk/War%20Diaries/Ypres%20Salient%20September%202004%20wd.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  7. ^ Honigsbaum, Mark (November 2007). "Pro patria mori?". commentisfree.guardian.co.uk. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mark_honigsbaum/2007/11/pro_patria_mori.html. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 

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