SOMER FARM
CEMETERY

Wytschaete

West-Vlaanderen

Belgium

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave Ieper via the Lille Gate, go directly over the crossroads with the Ieper ring road and take the N365 in the direction of Armentieres. Upon reaching the village of Wijtschate turn left into Hollebekestraat, the cemetery can be found 70m on the right.

This cemetery was started during the Battle of Messines in June 1917, and remained in use until March 1918; it was then used again in October of that year.

CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 67; Australia 24; Total Burials: 91

View images of this cemetery during and at the end of the war

Buried within this cemetery:


2919 Lance Corporal Wallace Alfred Jones 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry Killed in action 17/03/1918, aged 25. Row A. 13	3141 Private Patrick William Hoare 8th Bn. Australian Infantry Killed in action 14/12/1917, aged 36. Row B. 23.	823 Private Arthur Metcalfe 55th Bn. Australian Infantry Killed in action 16/03/1918, aged 26. Row B. 14. Son of Thomas and Jennet Metcalfe; husband of Mary B. Lewis (formerly Metcalfe), of Bridge St., Branxton, New South Wales. Native of Newcastle.	3526 Private Julian Thomas Whiston 59th Bn. Australian Infantry Killed in action 21/03/1918, aged 20. Row B. 10 Son of Fred William and Elizabeth Jane Whiston, of Cora Lynn, Victoria, Australia.

3758 Private Patrick Joseph Curran 5th Bn. Australian Infantry Killed in action 26/03/1918, aged 24 Row B. 11.	3269 Private James Laurence Quinn 59th Bn. Australian Infantry. Killed in action 23/03/1918, aged 23 Row B. 12	5326 Lance Corporal William Edward Alchin 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 14/03/1918, aged 24. Son of Edward and Elizabeth Ann Alchin, of "Kia Ora," Pinus Avenue, Glenorie, New South Wales. Native of Gunning, New South Wales. Row A. 14.	2507 Corporal William John Williams 57th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 06/12/1917, aged 22. Son of the late James and Maggie Williams. Native of Kyabram, Victoria, Australia. Row C. 22

7150 Corporal Harold James Gray 8th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 17/12/1917, aged 32. Son of James T. and Millicent Gray; husband of Emma Gray, of Balmain, Littlewood St., Hampton, Victoria, Australia. Native of Balmain. New South Wales. Row B. 22	1327 Private Leslie Adrian De Fontenay 7th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 29/12/1917, aged 22. Son of Adrian Cadet de Fontenay and Elizabeth de Fontenay, of 3, Hall St., Norwood, South Australia. Row B. 19	25530 Driver Rupert Sykes Hinson 55th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 14/03/1918, aged 27. Row B. 15	1949 Private Merion Morton Moriarty 55th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 12/03/1918, aged 25. Special Memorial 3.

7902 Private Charles James Cooper 2nd Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 16/01/1918, aged 24. Son of Charles and Mary Ellen Cooper, of Clifford St., Parramatta, New South Wales. Row B. 16	3948 Private John Stephens 7th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 30/12/1917, aged 20. Son of Matthew and Lucy Mary Stephens, of 14, Sussex St., Yarraville, Victoria, Australia. Row B. 18	3640 Private Frederick James Williams 57th Bn. Australian Infantry A. I. F. 14/12/1917, aged 25. Row C. 13	14/1627 Private Benjamin Thomas Moody 10th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment 02/07/1917, aged 35. Son of the late Thomas and Anne Moody, of Barnsley, Yorks. Row A. 27

235094 Private Joseph Evans 9th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers 05/08/1917. Row C. 16	51642 Private Sam Preston 96th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. 11/10/1918, aged 21. Son of Margaret Ann Preston, of "Woodlea," Copster Green, Salmesbury, Blackburn, and the late James Preston. Row A. 3	535590 Private Frank L. Brookes 15th Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) 14/10/1918, aged 26 Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Brookes, of Edenbridge Rd., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Middx. Native of Tottenham, London. Row C. 3.	310535 Lance Bombardier Percy William Stephens 114th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery 09/10/1918, aged 28. Son of William and Mary Stephens, of Church Rd., Chadlington, Charlbury, Oxon. Native of Hereford. Row A. 5.

116701 Gunner William T. Clothier 245th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery 09/10/1918, aged 30. Son of Mary Clothier, of Maiden Newton, Dorchester, and the late John Clothier; husband of Beatrice Staple (formerly Clothier), of Rose Cottage, Clay Lane, Puncknoll, Dorchester, Dorset. Row B. 2.	3189 Private Stanley Johnson Mears 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 01/03/1918, aged 25. Son of George Johnson Mears and Elizabeth Mears. Coll. Grave A. 12 Originally shown as buried at Somer Farm, then listed as missing on the Menin Gate for 78 years until 2nd May 1996, when he was officially recognised as buried at Somer Farm	3209 Private Ralph R. Pendleton 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 01/03/1918, aged 23. Son of Ralph and Rachel Pendleton, of Willow Tree, New South Wales. Native of Blackville, New South Wales. Coll. Grave A. 12 Originally shown as buried at Somer Farm, then listed as missing on the Menin Gate for 78 years until 2nd May 1996, when he was officially recognised as buried at Somer Farm	5348 Private John Frederick Keith Comb 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 01/03/1918, aged 23. Son of Frederick Edward and Louisa Comb, of Tupia Station, Hay, New South Wales. Coll. Grave A. 12

3167 Private James Frederick Kinsela 55th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 19/03/1918, aged 22. Row B. 13	3234/B Private George Rowland James Hill 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 01/03/1918, aged 20. Only son of Rowland Sydney and Charlotte Janet Hill, of "Isis," 45, Tupper St., Marrickville, New South Wales. Native of Sydney, New South Wales. Coll. Grave A. 12	2752 Private Frederick Austin Davis Wilkes 53rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 21/03/1918, aged 20. Son of Thomas Fredrick and Mary Jane Wilkes, of Bowraville, New South Wales. Sp. Mem. 4