Kemmel Churchyard
West Vlaanderen, Belgium

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

 

Kemmel Churchyard is located 8 kilometers south-west of Ieper town centre on a road leading from the Kemmelseweg (N331), connecting Ieper to Kemmel. From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and straight on towards Armentières (N336). 900 meters after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg. (Made prominent by a railway level crossing). On reaching the village of Kemmel the first right hand turning leads onto the Reningelststraat. 600 meters along the Reningelststraat lies the church and churchyard of Kemmel.


The village of Kemmel was near the front line during the greater part of the First World War, and in German hands in the summer of 1918. There are several Commonwealth cemeteries in the area, but Kemmel Churchyard was also used from October 1914 to March 1915. The churchyard contains 25 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. Three of the burials are unidentified and the graves of fifteen casualties destroyed by shell fire are represented by special memorials.

Burial details:

 
By Regiment
Gordon Highlanders 3
Royal Scots Fusiliers 3
12th (Prince of Wales' Royal) Lancers 2
King's Liverpool Regiment 2
127th Queen Mary's Own Baluch Light Infantry 1
16th (The Queen's) Lancers 1
2nd (Royal Scots Greys) Dragoons 1
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers 1
6th (Carabiniers) Dragoon Guards 1
Border Regiment 1
Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1
Cheshire Regiment 1
Highland Light Infantry 1
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars 1
Royal Engineers 1
Royal Scots 1
   
Known burials 22
Unknown burials 3
Total burials 25
   

 

 

 

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