Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery
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Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front in Belgium.[1]
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Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) | |
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
Used for those deceased April 1915 – April 1918 | |
Established | 1915 |
Location | 50°49′40″N 02°55′24″E near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium |
Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
Total burials | 857 |
Unknowns | 33 |
Burials by nation | |
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Burials by war | |
World War I: 857 | |
Official name | Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | i, ii, vi |
Designated | 2023 (45th session) |
Reference no. | 1567-FL19 |
Statistics source: WW1cemeteries.com |
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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.[2]