Hooge Crater Cemetery
Hooge Crater Cemetery is 4 Kms east of Ieper town centre on the Meenseweg (N8), connecting Ieper to Menen.
From Ieper town centre the Meenseweg is located via Torhoutstraat and right onto Basculestraat. Basculestraat ends at a main crossroads, directly over which begins the Meenseweg.
The cemetery itself is located 3.5 Kms along the Meenseweg on the right hand side of the road.
Hooge Crater Cemetery was begun by the 7th Division Burial Officer early in October 1917. It contained originally 76 graves, in Rows A to D of Plot I, but was greatly increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Zillebeke, Zantvoorde and Gheluvelt.
There are now 5,916 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 3,570 of the burials are unidentified, but special memorials record the names of a number of casualties either known or believed to be buried among them, or whose graves in other cemeteries were destroyed by shell fire.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.*
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Lance Corporal
G.H.Oxspring
Lance Corporal
A.J.Elliot
Capt. & Adjt
R.L.Hardy
Private
E.Postill
Private
F.Burton
2nd Lieutenant
G.A.Low
Captain
L.C.E.Baker MC
Private
R.G.Garland
Lieutenant
S.T.Barr
