HYDE PARK CORNER (ROYAL BERKS) CEMETERY
Comines-Warneton
Hainaut
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Exit Ieper via the Lille Gate and go directly over the roundabout onto the N365 direction Armentieres, the cemetery is 12.5 km along this road, through both Wijtschate and Mesen. The cemetery is located on the left side of the road, opposite the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Hyde Park Corner was a road junction to the north of Ploegsteert Wood, Hill 63 was to the north-west and nearby were the "Catacombs", deep shelters which were capable of holding two battalions, which were used from November 1916 onwards. The cemetery was started in April 1915 by the 1/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment and was used until November 1917.
Shot at Dawn: Rifleman S. McBride, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, executed for desertion on 07/12/1916, Row A. 17.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 81; Canada 1; Australia 1; Germany 4; Total Burials 87
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