BEDFORD HOUSE

CEMETERY

 

Ieper

 

West-Vlaanderen

 

Belgium

 

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Bedford House Cemetery lies on the main Ieper-Armentieres road (N365) 2.5km from Ieper town centre on the left. Access is easy and parking is provided.

 

Bedford House was the name given to Chateau Rosendal which stood in this area before being destroyed during the war. It was a country house set in a small wooded park with a moat.

 

It was used by Field Ambulances and also as a headquarters for brigades and fighting units. Gradually, small cemeteries covered the area and at the armistice there were five enclosures. Some graves were then removed to other cemeteries; No.1 enclosure was removed to White House Cemetery, St. Jean and No.5 enclosure to Aeroplane Cemetery, Ieper. This left the remaining three enclosures, No.2 was begun in December 1915 and used until October 1918, and it was then enlarged after the armistice when 437 burials were added.

 

The smallest enclosure, No.3 was started in February 1915 and used until December 1916; these burials were mostly made by the 17th Division.

 

Enclosure No.4; the largest, was used from June 1916 until February 1918, during this period many burials were made by the 47th (London) Division. After the armistice, 3,324 burials were added from other burial grounds in the surrounding area, many of these graves are unidentified.

 

The remaining enclosure No.6 lies closest to the road, it was made in the 1930’s from the concentration of burials from the surrounding battlefields, and there are also a number of Second World War graves in this enclosure.

 

CEMETERIES CONCENTRATED INTO BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY:

Asylum British Cemetery, Ypres

Boesinghe French Cemetery No.2

Droogenbroodhoek German Cemetery, Moorslede

Ecole de Bienfaisance Cemetery, Ypres

Kerkhove Churchyard

Poelcapelle German Cemetery No.4

Zonnebeke British Cemeteries No.1 and No.3

 

Victoria Cross: Second Lieutenant Rupert Price Hallowes, VC, MC, 4th Bn. Middlesex Regiment. He won his award at Hooge between 25th and 30th September 1915. He is buried in Plot XIV. Row B. 36.

 

Shot at Dawn: Private Frederick Turner of the 1/6th  Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, executed for desertion 23/10/17, he is buried in Enclosure No.4, plot 4, row A. 18.

 

 5 more views of this cemetery 

 

Casualty Details: UK 4425; Canada 390; Australia 249; New Zealand 36; South Africa 21; India 21; Germany 2; Total Burials: 5144

 

10915 Private

Albert Heartfield

6th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 23/09/1915.

Husband of Eliza Harriet Heartfield, of 57, Maberley Rd., Upper Norwood, London.

Enclosure No.2 VI. A. 93.

 

 

653350 Rifleman

Zachariah Patmore

21st Bn. London Regiment

(1st Surrey Rifles).

23/01/1917.

Enclosure No.4. I. D. 1.

Zachariah fell on the 23rd January 1917 in what was probably the coldest winter on record. He died with two other men, Charles Walter Findlay and Percy Frederick Jennings. All three men are buried side by side at Bedford Hose Cemetery.

Photo courtesy of Andy Mercer, Great nephew of this soldier

 

55590 Private

Roy Clingersmith

19th Bn. Canadian Infantry, (Central Ontario Regiment)

02/07/1916.

Enclosure No. 4, I. R. 5.

 

Picture courtesy of Shirley Clingersmith Godfree, niece of this soldier

 

 

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