DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: This cemetery is on the main N369 Diksmuidseweg, in the direction of Boezinge. From Ieper station turn left into M. Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, take a right and continue to next roundabout, turn left and continue to next roundabout, then right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second left which is Diksmuideseweg, the cemetery is on the right.
Duhallow A.D.S. (Advanced Dressing Station) is believed to have been named after a Southern Irish hunt; it was a medical post close to Ypres, and the cemetery here was started in July 1917. It was used continuously until the armistice. The cemetery contains the graves of many Engineers and Artillerymen, it also has the graves of 41 men of the 13th Labour Corps, who were killed when a German aircraft dropped a bomb on an ammunition track in January 1918, and these graves are in Plot 2. The cemetery was enlarged after the armistice, when graves were moved here from other small cemeteries and isolated sites in the area.
Shot at Dawn: Private J. Seymour, 2nd Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, executed for desertion on 24/01/1918, Plot 3. F. 10.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 1470; Canada 38; Australia 26; New Zealand 6; South Africa 3; India 1; Germany 54; Belgium 1; France 2; Total Burials: 1601
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