MOTOR CAR CORNER CEMETERY
Comines-Warneton
Hainaut
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: The cemetery can be found by taking the N365 from Ieper towards Armentieres, upon reaching the village of Ploegsteert, continue for a further 2km and turn left onto Witteweg (Chemin de la Blanche), then take the first right and the cemetery is a further 500m on the right.
Motor Car Corner marked the point in this sector that military vehicles were prohibited to pass in the direction of the front. The cemetery was started in June 1917 and continued to be used by fighting units until March 1918, it was originally sheltered by an avenue of trees and used in conjunction with a trench railway. After the capture of this area, by the Germans in 1918, they extended the cemetery northwards; the German burials were later removed.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 38; Australia 9; New Zealand 84; Germany 1; Total Burials: 132
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