Buttes New British Cemetery
Buttes New British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on the Western Front.Photo: LimoWreck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Buttes New British Cemetery Memorial and 5th Australian Division Memorial.
Buttes New British Cemetery Memorial
Memorial
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The Buttes New British Cemetery Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Buttes New British Cemetery, near the town of Zonnebeke, Belgium. It commemorates 378 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who were killed in the vicinity and have no known grave.
Polygon Wood Cemetery
Cemetery
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Polygon Wood Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War. It is located in Belgium, in what was the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. Polygon Wood Cemetery is situated 190 metres northwest of Buttes New British Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zonnebeke and Beselare.
Zonnebeke
Town
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Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the villages of Beselare, Gheluvelt, Passendale, Zandvoorde and Zonnebeke proper.
Zandvoorde
Village
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Zandvoorde is a village in the Belgian province of West Flanders and a part of the municipality of Zonnebeke. Zandvoorde is a rural village, in the rolling landscape of the southern part of the province. Zandvoorde is situated 5 km south of Buttes New British Cemetery.
Buttes New British Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium
- Categories: Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery and burial
- Location: West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.85586° or 50° 51′ 21″ northLongitude
2.99179° or 2° 59′ 30″ eastOperator
Commonwealth War Graves CommissionOpen location code
9F24VX4R+8POpenStreetMap ID
way 90503660OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q18110823
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In Other Languages
“Buttes New British Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood”
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