ST. JULIEN DRESSING
STATION CEMETERY
Langemark-Poelkapelle
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave Ieper via Torhoutstraat, this leads onto Kalfvaartstraat, at the end of this road is a large junction of which Brugseweg is the first right turn, take this and continue for 5km, just before the village of St. Juliaan is a right turn onto Peperstraat. The cemetery lies immediately after this turn on the left hand side. Parking and access are easy.
The village of St. Julien was in Allied hands from the late autumn of 1914 until April 1915. It was here that the Germans used poison gas for the first time on 22nd April 1915, but the attack failed and the village was held by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, until a second gas attack two days later. It was recaptured by the 39th Division in early August, before once again passing into enemy hands on 27th April 1918. St. Julien was finally retaken by the Belgian Army on 28th September 1918.
The cemetery here was started in September 1917 and by March 1918 consisted of Plots 1, 3 and part of Plot 2, there was at this time 203 graves. The cemetery was later severely damaged by shellfire in the summer of 1918. After the armistice this cemetery was increased when graves were added to Plot 2 and Plot 4 was made from burials from the surrounding battlefields.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 395; Canada 15; Australia 10; New Zealand 3; South Africa 5; Total Burials: 428
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