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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 1879
Died 1917
British Army Captain Royal Irish Fusiliers 2nd Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Leinster Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Leinster Regiment attd Northumberland Regt 12th/13th Battalion
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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
Australian Imperial Force 6719 Private Australian Infantry 3rd 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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Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 44261 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 4th Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 5549 Private Worcestershire Regiment
British Army 241922 Private Worcestershire Regiment
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Born 1873
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 26660 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 4th Battalion
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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 1893
Died 1917
British Army 205082 Private West Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 205082 Private West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
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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 1895
Died 1917
British Army 27959 Serjeant Royal Scots 12th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1917
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 68729 Air Mechanic 3rd Class
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant 54th Squadron
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Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 49777 Private Auckland Infantry Regiment 3rd Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 33103 Private Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 2nd Battalion
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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 1877
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 41889 Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1917
South African Services 4226 Private South African Infantry
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Born 1872
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 300975
Canadian Expeditionary Force 300975 Gunner Canadian Field Artillery
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