World War One Cemeteries in Belgium - M Directory

 

Mud Corner Cemetery


Mud Corner Cemetery, Warneton, West Flanders. Near River Lys, 10 miles from Ypres on N edge of Ploegsteert Wood, 2 miles from La Basse-Ville. Used from June 7th (when New Zealand Division captured Messines) to December 1917. Records 53 NZ., 31 Aust., and 1 UK burials.


Graves in Mud Corner Cemetery of No 31993 Private Frank Donovan Garaway 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in action 26th July 1917 aged 34 years; No 32097 Private Thomas Henry Tucker 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in action 26th July 1917 aged 27 years, son of William Henry and Eliza Ann Tucker of Ilfracombe England; No 31943 Private Edward Beach 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in action 26th July 1917 aged 54 years, son of Joshua and Mary Beach of Worcestershire England and No 31958 Private Eric William Cobeldick 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in action 26th July 1917 aged 21 years, son of William and Mary Cobeldick of Rotorua Hamilton New Zealand.


Grave in Mud Corner Cemetery of No 13/517 Private Alexander McKenzie 2nd Battalion Auckland Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in action 27th June 1917 having served in the South African Campaign and at Gallipoli. Son of the late Donald and Margaret McKenzie of Auckland New Zealand.


Messines Ridge British Cemetery


Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Messines, West Flanders. 6 miles S of Ypres on outskirts of village on road to Neuve-Elise. Created after the Armistice from isolated graves and small cemeteries in battle-fields of the Salient. Records 990 U.K., 338 Aust., 125 N.Z., 60 S.A.,burials and 13 special memorials.

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