OXFORD ROAD CEMETERY
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: From the station, go left along M. Fochlaan, continue to the roundabout and go right, continue again to the next roundabout and turn left into M. Haiglaan. At the next roundabout, turn right into Oude Veurnestraat, this then changes name, first to Diksmidseweg and then Brugseweg, continue on this road to and over the traffic lights to the end of the road. At the T Junction turn left (still Brugseweg), and continue along this road through Sint Jan (N313). After the village go right at the fork and the cemetery is 50m on the right.
This cemetery is named after a road running behind the support trenches, from Wieltje to the Zonnebeke-Potijze road. The original Oxford Road Cemetery now makes up Plot 1 and was used by fighting units from August 1917-April 1918. In October 1917, another cemetery, known as Oxford Road Cemetery No.2 as started close by, this now forms Plot 5 of the present cemetery. Plots 2-4 were made after the armistice, through battlefield clearances.
Victoria Cross: Captain Clement Robertson, VC, 3rd Bn. Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, attached Tank Corps, killed in action 04/10/1917, he is believed to be buried in plot 3. F. 7.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 657; Canada 83; Australia 74; New Zealand 37; Germany 2; Total Burials: 853
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