MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: This cemetery is located on the N345 which connects Ieper and Menen. From Ieper centre leave via the Menin Gate, continue to the traffic lights and turn right onto the N345, the cemetery is located a further 800m on the right of the road.
This cemetery which was started in January 1916, by the 8th South Staffords and the 9th East Surreys, was within allied lines for the majority of the war, it was continually used by Field Ambulances and fighting units until the summer of 1918. After the armistice, the cemetery was greatly enlarged by a concentration of graves from Menin Road North Military Cemetery and other isolated graves from the surrounding battlefields.
Menin Road North Cemetery stood on the Northern side of the road almost opposite to the Southern Cemetery, and contained 136 burials.
Victoria Cross: Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson, VC, 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment Plot II. E. 1. he was killed in action on 31/07/1917.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 1125; Canada 148; Australia 267; New Zealand 52; Unidentified 65; Germany 1; Total Burials: 1658
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