BRIDGE HOUSE CEMETERY

 

Langemark-Poelkapelle

 

West-Vlaanderen

 

Belgium

 

 

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave Ieper via Torhoutstraat, this leads onto Kalfvaartstraat, at the end of this road is a large junction of which Brugseweg is the first right turn, take this and continue for 5km, just before the village of St. Juliaan is a right turn onto Peperstraat, after 1km lies a right turn into Roeselarestraat, the cemetery is almost opposite the junction on the left.

 

Bridge House was a farmhouse about 1.6km south of St. Julien, it stood close to a bridge over the Steenbeek, the cemetery was made by the 59th (North Midland) Division at the end of September 1917; all but five of the burials are men of that Division and all but one date from September 26-28th (the Battle of Polygon Wood).

 

CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 45; Total Burials: 45

 

Burials by Regiment

 

Royal Army Medical Corps 08 Leicestershire Regiment 08
Lincolnshire Regiment 07 North Staffordshire Regiment 07
South Staffordshire Regiment 03 Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 03
Lancashire Fusiliers 02 King's Liverpool Regiment 02
Royal Engineers 02 Royal Irish Rifles 01
Tank Corps 01 Unidentified 04

 

 

 

 

 

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