OAK DUMP CEMETERY

 

Ieper

 

West-Vlaanderen

 

Belgium

 

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave via the Lille Gate, and take the N365 in the direction of Armentieres, after 3km go left into Vaartstraat and a further 1km along this road is a right turn into Bernikkewallestraat, the cemetery is 1km along on the right.

 

This cemetery was made and used by fighting units from July-September 1917. In the last year of the war, a sap opposite the cemetery was blown in, and seven men of the 180th Siege Battery were killed in it, this sap was uncovered in 1927 and the men's bodies buried in this cemetery.

 

Another view of this cemetery

 

CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 109; Australia 2; Total Burials: 111

 

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