Lone Tree Cemetery
Lone Tree Cemetery (Spanbroekmolen) is located 8.5 kilometres south of Ieper town centre, on a road leading from the Rijselseweg, N365, which connects Ieper to Wijtschate and on to Armentieres. From Ieper town centre the Rijselsestraat runs from the market square, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and directly over the crossroads with the Ieper ring road. The road name then changes to the Rijselseweg. On reaching the village of Wijtschate the first right hand turning leads onto Hospicestraat which leads onto the village square. Leave the village square following signs for Kemmel along Wijtschatestraat. After 2 kilometres turn left onto Kruisstraat. The cemetery lies 1 kilometre along the Kruisstraat on the right hand side of the road and is located at the rear of a farm.
Lone Tree Cemetery is close to the Lone Tree Crater, one of the nineteen which were made immediately before the infantry attack at the Battle of Messines in June 1917. Nearly all the graves in the cemetery are those of soldiers who fell on the first day of the battle.
The cemetery contains 88 First World War burials and was designed by J R Truelove.*
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Lt F.V.Coupland-Smith
Captain H.Gallaugher DSO
Private W.R. Edwards
Rifleman H. Tate
Rifleman R. Dixon
Rifleman J.E. Gilliland
Rifleman T Millar
L/Corporal A Parker
Rifleman R Colvin
Rifleman J.McKee
Rifleman E.Rooney
Lt A.J.B.Hudson MC
Rifleman J.McConnell
Rifleman S.Porter
Rifleman C.A.Fanning
Private J.D.Benson
Rifleman I.West
Rifleman H.W.Cornwell
Rifleman A.T.Bird
Private F.Walker
Rifleman A.W.Dryland
Private T.Davies
Rifleman H.Scott
Rifleman R.H.Barnett
L/Corporal J.Harris
Rifleman S Parkinson
L/ Corporal D Currie
Rifleman J Mooney
Private H.J.Brough
Rifleman M.Williamson
Rifleman J.Bruce
Serjeant P.S.P.Hill
Lt C.J.Plunkett
Gunner E.L.Carty
Rifleman R.W.Bennett
L/Corporal R.J.Whittington
Rifleman J.Lyness
Rifleman R.Harvey
Rifleman R.J. Laird
Rifleman A.H.Bloomfield
Rifleman E.J.W.Leaver
Private J.E.Brown
Private T.R.Merry
Rifleman P.Brooks
Sergeant T.W.Watson
Rifleman W.E.McCullagh
Private P.Campbell
Private E.Smith
Gunner W.J.Marsh
Serjeant H.L.C.Page
2Lt.W.S.Ferris
Rifleman B.Whitehouse
Rifleman F.T.Boulding
Rifleman S.Matier
Rifleman W.J.Baker
Rifleman J.Greer
Private J.Smith
Rifleman R.G.Aggas
Rifleman S.O. Anderson
Rifleman W.A.Shearing
Corporal F.Laverty
Rifleman C.W.Lake
Rifleman D.Lee
L/Corporal T.Logan
Rifleman T.H.Brians
L/Corporal C.Burnett
Rifleman R.Dempester
Rifleman F.Williams
Rifleman W.Spence
Corporal H.Spence
Private H.House
Private M.Finn
Rifleman W.G.Swain
Rifleman E.Evans
Rifleman W.Hawthorne
L/Serjeant T.Kyle
Rifleman J.W.Edwards
L/Serjeant J.Brown
Rifleman T.Craig
