COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
De Panne
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: The cemetery is 1km beyond the village of Koksijde on the N396 in the direction of De Panne. From Koksijde Dorp the N396 Houtsaegerlaan crosses the Zeelaan and at the same time changes name to Robert Vandammestraat. 1km further along this road lays the cemetery.
When the British Fourth Army took over, from the French, a section of the front from the sea to a point south of Nieuport in June 1917, Coxyde was about 10km behind the front line. Coxyde Military Cemetery had already been started by the French troops who had been relieved. The village due to its fairly safe position was used as a rest area, although it was still occasionally shelled. This cemetery due to its reasonably safe position became the most important of the British Graveyards on the Belgian coast. It was widely used at night, for the burial of front line casualties.
When the area was once again taken over by the French in December 1917, they continued to use the cemetery; later during 1918 it was also used for the burials of naval personnel who were based at Dunkerque. The cemetery was enlarged after the armistice by graves from other small cemeteries in the area and from isolated graves.
CEMETERIES CONCENTRATED INTO COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY:
Furnes Road British Cemetery
Oosthoek Military Cemetery
Shot at Dawn:
Private W. Wycherley 2nd Manchester Regiment executed 12/9/17 and buried in Plot 3 Row G. 6. - Desertion.
Rifleman F. W. Cheeseman 18th Kings Royal Rifle Corps, executed 20/10/17, he is buried in Plot 4 Row G. 23. - Desertion.
Sapper A. P. Oyns 50th Search Light Company Royal Engineers, executed 20/10/1917, Plot 4 Row G. 24. - Murder.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 1453; Canada 15; Australia 18; New Zealand 19; South Africa 2; Germany 10; Total Burials: 1517
Lieutenant
Ralph Dorchell Doughty MC.
3rd A. F. A. Brigade,
Australian Field Artillery
25/07/1917, aged 26.
Son of William Mamby Doughty, and the late Susanna Doughty, of Stratford, New Zealand.
Plot I. F. 20.
Picture courtesy of Peter Kivell, great, great nephew.
More information and the diaries of Lt. Doughty
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