DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY
CEMETERY EXTENSION
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, close to the church the cemetery is across the road from the New Military cemetery. Access and parking are easy.
After the closure of the Old and New cemeteries in March 1915 and May 1917 respectively, another cemetery was started in Dickebusch, this was the New Military Extension. It was opened in May 1917 and used until January 1918 by fighting units and Field Ambulances.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 520; Canada 2; Australia 24; South Africa 1; Total Burials: 547
168040 Gunner
Riley Chew
2nd Army Pool
Royal Garrison Artillery
14/07/1917, aged 28.
Plot II. B. 8
Son of William and Millicent Chew; husband of Maud Chew,
of Swindon Moor Head, Hellifield, Leeds.
Picture courtesy of Roger Thomas
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