ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: From the station turn left into M. Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and continue to the next roundabout. Turn right here, into Oude Veurnestraat, and then take the second turn on the left, which is the Diksmuidseweg, and continue on and under the motorway bridge, the cemetery can be found can be found on the right.
Standing by the banks of a canal, Essex Farm cemetery is to be found in the village of Boezinge, it was used as a dressing station cemetery from April 1915 until August 1917. On the canal bank standing above the cemetery is the 49th (West Riding) Division Memorial (Pictured below). To the left of the entrance to the cemetery are dugouts which were recently renovated by local school children, there is also a memorial to Dr John McCrea, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, who wrote his famous poem In Flanders Fields in the area where the cemetery now stands.
Victoria Cross: Private Thomas Barratt, VC, 7th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment, died 27/071917. Plot 1. Z. 8.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 1107; Canada 9; Entirely Unidentified 83; Germany 5; Total Burials: 1204
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