GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY
Godewaersvelde
Nord
France
General Directions: Godewaersvelde is a village near the Belgian border, about 16 kilometres south-west of Ieper (in Belgium), and is half-way between Poperinge (in Belgium) and Hazebrouck (in France). The British Cemetery is a little east of the village.
The cemetery was begun in July 1917 when three casualty clearing stations were moved to Godewaersvelde. The 37th and the 41st buried in it until November 1917, the 11th until April 1918, and from April to August 1918, during the German offensive in Flanders, field ambulance and fighting units carried on the burials. After the Armistice, the graves of five soldiers of the 110th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery were brought in from a point nearer the Mont des Cats and in May 1953, four graves in Godewaersvelde Churchyard were moved into the cemetery. A considerable French plot was made on the terrace at the higher end of the cemetery in May and June 1918, but the graves were later removed.
Casualty Details: UK 895, Canada 5, Australia 65, New Zealand 2, South Africa 2, India 3, Germany 19, Total Burials: 991
74282 Gunner
Bernard Dudley Bailey
23rd Heavy Battery.
Royal Garrison Artillery
20/10/17, aged 28.
Plot 1. K. 1.
Image courtesy of his great granddaughter, Chrissy Bailey
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