R. E. FARM CEMETERY
Heuvelland
West-Valaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave Ieper via the Lille gate, go over the cross roads with the Ieper ring road and follow signs for N365 towards Armentieres and Mesen, upon reaching Mesen turn first right onto Mesenstraat in the direction of Wulvergem. On reaching the village of Wulvergem the first right turn at the church leads onto Wulvergemstraat. Continue for 500m to the junction with Vrooilandstraat. The cemetery itself lies 500m beyond this junction on the left hand side of the Wulvergemstraat.
Wytschaete was in Allied hands until 1st November 1914, and then from June 1917 to April 1918 and again from 28 September 1918 onwards. RE Farm was the military name given to the Ferme des douze Bonniers. This building remained in Allied hands until April 1918.
The cemetery was begun in December 1914 by the 1st Dorsets, and was originally named No.1 it was made on the east side of the farm and used by Field Ambulances and fighting units until April 1916, and occasionally in 1917.
In January 1915, the same battalion began another cemetery (No2) on the west side of the farm. This cemetery was little used, and after the armistice the 23 graves it contained were removed into No.1. This in turn was renamed R.E. Farm Cemetery.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 132; Canada 47; Total Burials: 179
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