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ADINKERKE CHURCHYARD EXTENSION

West-Vlaanderen

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates Latitude: 51.07561  Longitude: 2.60161​
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Adinkerke Churchyard Extension
Picture © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information

Adinkerke is located west of the town of Veurne on the N39. Driving along the N39 towards France, enter the village and go first left then immediate right into Stationstraat. This allows you to cross the canal. From Stationstraat go first left into Dorpstraat, go past the first turning on the right and the cemetery is on the right. 
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Historical Information

From June - November, 1917, the British XV Corps held the line in this sector, and the 24th and 39th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at Oosthoek (between Adinkerke and Furnes) between July and November of that year, and the 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Station was situated in Adinkerke in June. Most of the burials here were made by these units. The Commonwealth cemetery lies within a Belgian military cemetery on the west side of the Churchyard.



​Casualty Details: United Kingdom 67. Total 67.
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193790 Private
Charles Bates

243rd Div. Employment Coy. Labour Corps
25th July 1917.
Grave Ref: 809.

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Flight Sub-Lieutenant 
Eric William Busby
4th Sqdn. Royal Naval Air Service
10th July 1917, aged 19.
Grave Ref: 834.

Son of George Edmund and Kate Busby, of "Fairfield,'' Serpentine Rd., Selly Park, Birmingham.

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L/15775 Driver
Ernest Filby
"A" Bty. 161st Bde. Royal Field Artillery
13th July 1917.
​Grave Ref: 813.

Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos

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203168 Private
Louis Harrison
1st/4th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
24th July 1917.
Grave Ref: 807.

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Lieutenant 
Stanley Charles Knight
Anti-Aircraft Bde. Royal Marine Artillery
12th July 1915, aged 22.
Grave Ref: 798 BIS.

Son of Mr. C. S. Knight, of 68/70, Fenchurch St., London.

His headstone bears the inscription: "For Country And Home."

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16852 Private
John Dunlop McInnes
15th Bn. Highland Light Infantry
24th June 1917, aged 27.
Grave 1711.

Born in Lanarkshire, youngest son of Hugh McInnes and Jane Dick of Ayrshire. Worked as a miner. Husband of Katy Stewart and father of Hugh (born 1912) and Margaret (born 1915) 

​Remembered by his family and descendants.


Picture courtesy of Dorothy Quail

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Adinkerke Churchyard Extension
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Flight Sub-Lieutenant 
Thomas Ralph Shearer

9th Sqdn. Royal Naval Air Service
13th June 1917, aged 23.
Grave Ref: 1713.

Son of the Rev. William Shearer and his wife Isabella Reid Russell, of Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada.

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203255 Private
George Clement Sutcliffe
1st/4th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
23rd July 1917, aged 33.
Grave Ref: 841.

Husband of Amy Sutcliffe, of 751, Huddersfield Rd., Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury.


His headstone bears the inscription: "Worthy Of Everlasting Love; Beloved Husband Of Amy Sutcliffe."

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202820 Private
​Harry Tunnacliffe
1st/4th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
25th July 1917, aged 33.
Grave Ref: 848.


Husband of Janet Tunnacliffe, of Tandem, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield.

His headstone bears the inscription: "Loved, Honoured, Mourned."

Adinkerke Churchyard Extension

Pictures in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

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British soldier holding a baby outside a cottage in Adinkerke, 6th August 1917. © IWM (Q 2689)
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British soldier minding the baby outside his billet in Adinkerke, near Dunkerque, 6th August 1917. © IWM (Q 2688)

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