Bard Cottage Cemetery

Bard Cottage Cemetery is a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground near Ypres, Belgium. It is home to 1,607 identified casualties. The cemetery is half a kilometre north of Essex Farm Cemetery.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Essex Farm Cemetery and Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station.

Essex Farm Cemetery

Cemetery

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Essex Farm Cemetery is a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground within the John McCrae Memorial Site near Ypres, Belgium. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. Essex Farm Cemetery is situated 690 metres southeast of Bard Cottage Cemetery.

Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station

Bunker

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Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station is a bunker, which is situated 610 metres southeast of Bard Cottage Cemetery.

Talana Farm Cemetery

Cemetery

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Talana Farm Cemetery is situated 1 km northwest of Bard Cottage Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boezinge and Elverdinge.

Boezinge

Village

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Boezinge is a village in the municipality of Ypres in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Boezinge can be reached via the N369 road in the direction of Diksmuide.

Elverdinge

Village

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Elverdinge is a village in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. The village is part of the municipality of Ypres. In World War I, the village was part of the Ypres Salient, a bulge in the front lines around Ypres in WWI, created in late 1914 after the front stabilised and the Allied and German armies dug in around the town. Elverdinge is situated 3½ km west of Bard Cottage Cemetery.

Vlamertinge

Village

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Vlamertinge is a village in the Belgian province of West Flanders and a borough of the city of Ypres. The village centre of Vlamertinge lies just outside the city centre of Ypres, along the main road N38 to the nearby town of Poperinge. Vlamertinge is situated 4 km southwest of Bard Cottage Cemetery.

Bard Cottage Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Description: commonwealth War Grave Commission cemetery in Belgium
Categories: Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery and burial
Location: Ypres, Arrondissement of Ypres, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude

50.87638° or 50° 52′ 35″ north

Longitude

2.86849° or 2° 52′ 7″ east

Open location code

9F24VVG9+H9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 90505581

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

Wikidata ID

Q1880569

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to French—“Bard Cottage Cemetery” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Bard Cottage Cemetery”
French: “Cimetière militaire Bard Cottage”

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