LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY
Heuvelland
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leaving Ieper by the Lille Gate, go straight over the crossroads onto the N365 towards Armentieres, after 900 metres, just before the level crossing is a right turn onto Kemmelseweg, the cemetery is a further 5km on the right.
This cemetery is named after the nearby dairy farm; it was opened in November 1914 and used by fighting units holding this sector of the front until October 1918. The different plots were, to a great extent, treated as regimental burial grounds, for example, the majority of graves in Plots II, III and X are those of the 26th, 25th and 24th Canadian Infantry Battalions respectively, and all but one of the graves in Plot VIII are those of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers. The cemetery fell into enemy hands in April 1918, before finally being retaken at the beginning of September. More graves were added after the armistice, from the battlefields north and north-east of Kemmel.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 547; Canada 197; Australia 7; Total Burials: 751
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