CANADA FARM CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: 8.5km north West of Ieper, the main N8 Ieper-Veurne road leads to Elverdinghe, then take the N333 in the direction of Poperinge, 2km on turn right onto Elzendammestraat, and the cemetery is a little further on the right.
The cemetery takes its name from a farmhouse used as a dressing station during the 1917 Allied offensive in this area, and most of the burials are of men who died at the dressing station between June-October 1917.
Victoria Cross: Corporal James Llewellyn Davies VC, 13th Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Died of Wounds 31st July 1917. He is buried in Plot II Row B 18.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 898; Canada 9; Total Burials: 907
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