KANDAHAR FARM CEMETERY
Heuvelland
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: The cemetery is 10.5 km south of Ieper on Niewkerkestraat (N314), this is a road leading from the N365 Ieper-Armentieres road. Leaving Ieper by the Lille Gate, go across the roundabout onto the N365 direction Armentieres, remain on this road until reaching Mesen, then take the first right turn onto Mesenstraat (N314) this road continues to Nieuwkerke, via Wulvergem. The cemetery is 1km beyond the village of Wulvergem on the left hand side of Niewkerkestraat.
Kandahar Farm was near the village of Wulverghem and for much of the war the front line ran a little to the east of the village. The cemetery was started in November 1914 and used throughout the war until it fell into enemy hands in April 1918. It was finally retaken in early September of that year and continued to be used until the armistice.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 218; Canada 6; Australia 186; New Zealand 33; Germany 3; Total Burials: 446
6087 Corporal
Frederick Sahr
37th Bn. Australian Infantry,
A. I. F.
18/07/1916, aged 20.
Son of Frederick and the late Elizabeth Sahr, of Station St., Romsey, Victoria, Australia. Native of Maryborough, Victoria.
Plot II. C. 21.
Private Frederick Sahr, of Maryborough, Victoria, was a grocer before enlisting in April 1916. He formed part of the 19th Reinforcements of the 7th Battalion before being transferred to reinforce the 37th Battalion in August 1916. He was promoted to Corporal in August 1917, and according to his Red Cross Wounded and Missing file, was well known in the Battalion for his ‘particularly bright disposition’. He was seeking cover in a trench during the Battle of Messines when a German high explosive shell landed nearby, killing him instantly on 18 July1917.
Picture courtesy of Rowena Gough
31259 Private
Thomas Bernard Hall
1st Bn. Wellington Regiment,
N. Z. E. F.
08/06/1917, aged 26.
Son of James and Julia Hall, of Albert Rd., New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand.
Plot II. A. 16.
Remembered with honour
Picture courtesy of Peter Kivell
2124 Private
Malcolm George MacDonald
9th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps.
28/07/1917, aged 19.
Plot II. F. 9.
He was the son
and youngest child of Francis John McDonald
and Josephine Sarah McDonald (Wilson/Clark). He was born in Coonabarabran
in New South Wales and enlisted in the army in Newcastle, New South Wales.
Served
in France and Belgium and was killed in action in Belgium on 28/7/1917, aged
19.
My Grandmother,
who was closest to him, of all the siblings, in both age and friendship,
never really got over his
death. There is a monument with his name on it on Ocean Road, Dudley,
Newcastle. It is in a
park diagonally opposite the home he used to live in.
Picture courtesy of great niece, Patricia Adams
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