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Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, where there are 3,590 identified British and Commonwealth casualties out of the 11,961 buried there. 'Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. The barn, which had become the centre of five or six German blockhouses, or pill-boxes, was captured by the 3rd Australian Division on 4 October 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele. One of these pill-boxes was unusually large and was used as an advanced dressing station after its capture. From 6 October to the end of March 1918, 343 graves were made, on two sides of it, by the 50th (Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions, and by two Canadian units. The cemetery was in German hands again from 13 April to 28 September, when it was finally recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the Belgian Army. TYNE COT CEMETERY was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds.
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 41722 Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
British Army 8561 LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
British Army 41722 Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 7/8th Battalion.
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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 270376 Private Hertfordshire Regiment
British Army 225372 Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army 225372 Private London Regiment
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Died 1917
British Army R 12085 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Born 1889
Died 1917
British Army 12009 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 26237 Private Yorkshire Regiment 8th Battalion.
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Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 44261 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 4th Battalion
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Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 49777 Private Auckland Infantry Regiment 3rd Battalion
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Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 24/877 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army S-41089 Private Gordon Highlanders 8th/10th Battalion
British Army S-16488 Private Seaforth Highlanders 8th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force Second Lieutenant 9th Australian Infantry Brigade 34th Battalion
Australian Imperial Force Captain Australian Infantry 34th Battalion
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Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army GS-5877(Incomplete) Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army G/58775 Private Royal Fusiliers 7th Battalion
British Army G/58775 Private Royal Fusiliers 4th Battalion
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Born 1872
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 300975
Canadian Expeditionary Force 300975 Gunner Canadian Field Artillery
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Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 6183 Serjeant Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 202298 Serjeant Yorkshire Regiment 1st/5th Bn.
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Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6719 Private Australian Infantry 3rd Battalion
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Born 1875
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 157 Sergeant Australian Infantry 36th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 241775 Lance Corporal Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
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Born 1896
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 291114
Canadian Expeditionary Force 291114 Private Canadian Mounted Rifles 1st Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 43538 Serjeant Norfolk Regiment
British Army 1146 Acting Corporal Norfolk Regiment
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Born 1894
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 28494 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 1st Battalion
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Born 1873
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 26660 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 4th Battalion
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