VOORMEZEELE
ENCLOSURE No. 3
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Leave Ieper via the Lille Gate, and take the signs for Armentieres (N365), after 900m just before the railway crossing turn right onto Kemmelseweg (N331) and follow to the first crossroads, turn left into Ruusschaartstraat and the cemetery is 1km after the junction on the left, just before Voormezeele Dorp.
There were originally four enclosures at Voormezeele, although there are now only three, these were originally regimental groups of graves, begun early during the war and gradually increased until both the cemetery and village were captured by the Germans on 29th April 1918.
Enclosure No. 3, the largest of these burial grounds, was started by the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry in February 1915. They buried their men in what is now Plot 3, the other plots from 1-9 are the work of other units or pairs of units, and they also include a few burials from October 1918. Plots 10 and 12 are of more general character, whilst Plots 13-16 were made after the armistice. This area was recaptured by Commonwealth forces in early September 1918.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 1498; Canada 99; Australia 11; New Zealand 2; South Africa 1; Germany 1; Total Burials: 1612
64306 Private
Percival Charles Dawes
123rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
27/06/1917.
Plot XVI. F. 9.
Picture courtesy of Marion Arnott, great granddaughter of this soldier
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