NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: From the station turn left and follow M Fochlaan to the roundabout, take a right and continue to the next roundabout before going left into M Haiglaan, continue along this road to the traffic lights and turn right onto the A19 in the direction of Kortrijk, continue along to the next set of lights and turn left into Pilkemseweg before going first right into Zwaanhofweg which is a small country road, continue along this road to the crossroads and the cemetery is on the right.
Named after a farm which stood nearby, the cemetery was begun in August 1917 and continued in use until November of that year, it was then further used in April and May of 1918. At the armistice the cemetery contained just 73 burials in three irregular rows, these can now be found as part of Plot 1. Its location then made it an ideal cemetery to be enlarged and 4,500 graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and small isolated cemeteries.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 4356; Canada 258; Australia 65; New Zealand 23; South Africa 6; India 7; Germany 1; Total Burials: 4716
610317 Acting Bombardier
Ezra Maddock, MM
"A" Battery, 223rd Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery
13/10/1917, aged 25.
Son of Charles and Sarah Maddock, of Victoria St., Narborough, Leicester.
Plot XIII. B. 15.
Picture courtesy of Ken Nash, Ezra Maddock was his grandmothers brother
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