BIRR CROSS ROADS
CEMETERY
Zillebeke
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: The cemetery is located on the N8 Meenseweg, which connects Ieper-Menen, it can be reached via Torhoutstraat and then going right into Basculestraat, this road ends at the main crossroads, directly over which starts the N8 Meenseweg, the cemetery is a further 2.5km on the right.
Birr Cross-Roads is a point on the Menin road; it was named as such by the 1st Leinster Regiment after their depot in Ireland. The cemetery was started in August 1917 and used as a dressing station until and after the German Spring Offensive in 1918. After the armistice it was greatly enlarged from the nine irregular rows of graves which already stood here, to its present size.
CEMETERIES CONCENTRATED INTO BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY:
Bellewaarde Ridge Military Cemetery, Zonnebeke
Birr Cross Roads Cemetery No.2
Union Street Cemeteries No.1 and No.2, Zillebeke
VICTORIA CROSS: Captain Harold Ackroyd, VC, MC, Royal Army Medical Corps. Attd 6th Bn Royal Berkshire Regiment, is buried here, he was killed in action 11/08/17, and is commemorated on a special memorial (No.7) in this cemetery.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 66; Canada 16; Australia 143; New Zealand 12; South African 1; Total Burials 833
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