DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY
CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Take the N375 Dikkebusseweg, this can be found on the right immediately after the railway station in the direction of Poperinge. Continue into Dikkebus and the cemetery is on Kerkstraat, a small left turn off Dikkebusseweg about 200 metres along, it is just by the church. Access and parking are easy.
This cemetery was started in February 1915 in succession to the Old Military cemetery and continued to be used until May 1917 by fighting units and Field Ambulances, further burials were added in March and April 1918.
Shot at Dawn: Lance Corporal J. S.V. Fox, 1st Bn. Wiltshire Regiment, attached 3rd Division Cyclists’ Company, executed for desertion 20/04/1915, Plot D. 15.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 529; Canada 84; Australia 11; Total Burials: 624
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