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Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Ypres (Ieper)
Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Ypres (Ieper)
A community for those buried in this cemetery. From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper) formed the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for a while French) forces. From April 1915, the town was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the western front. The cemetery is by the Lille Gate, on top of the old rampart, over what had been dug-outs. It was begun by French troops in November 1914 and used by Commonwealth units at intervals from February 1915 to April 1918. The cemetery contains 198 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. The French graves have been removed. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
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Born 1888
Died 1915
British Army 10730 Private Yorkshire Light Infantry
British Army 10730 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
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Born 1891
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 19753 Private New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 26465 Private Manchester Regiment 17th Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 2671 Private 9th Royal Scots
British Army 2671 Private Royal Scots
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Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army 3/6983 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 71285
Canadian Expeditionary Force 71285 Sapper Canadian Engineers
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Died 1915
British Army 8477 Private West Riding Regiment
British Army 8477 Private Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
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Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 12432 Private Yorkshire Light Infantry
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Born 1875
Died 1915
British Army 8424 Corporal Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army 8424 Acting Serjeant Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army 8424 Serjeant Lincolnshire Regiment
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Died 1918
British Army 13307 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
British Army 42544 Private Essex Regiment
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Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 31923 Private Wiltshire Regiment
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Born 1893
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 20779 New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1915
British Army 2763 Private Royal Scots
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Died 1915
British Army S/894 Private Royal West Kent Regiment
British Army S/894 Private Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
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Born 1894
Died 1915
British Army 16250 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
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Born 1886
Died 1915
British Army 2307 Private Cheshire Regiment
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Died 1917
British Army 21347 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army 21347 Private Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
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Born 1894
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 628202
Canadian Expeditionary Force 628202 Private Canadian Infantry
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