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10 more pictures added to Oxford Road Cemetery in Belgium, courtesy of Geerhard Joos. There are 851 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 297 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located. 
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Have added 24 new pictures to Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus in France, courtesy of Johan Pauwels, Geerhard Joos and Werner Van Caneghem. There are now nearly 700, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 150 are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to one Canadian soldier, believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 44 soldiers from Canada and ten from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Four graves in Plot IV, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words: "Buried near this spot". The great majority of the British graves are of April 1917; the French are of 1914 and 1915. 177 French graves have been removed to other cemeteries.  12 more pictures added to Nine Elms British Cemetery, courtesy of Geerhard Joos. The cemetery contains 1,556 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 37 German war graves from this period. There are also 22 Second World War burials in the cemetery, all dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in 1940.  18 more pictures added of the Nieuport Memorial in Belgium which commemorates the 566 British Officers and Men who have no known grave and fell in the defence of Antwerp in October 1914 and later operations on the Belgian coast. Pictures courtesy of Geerhard Joos  30 more pictures of Brussels Town Cemetery and 14 brand new pictures of the Belgian Airmen's Field of Honour, also located in the cemetery  10 more pictures added to Minty Farm Cemetery in Belgium, courtesy of Geerhard Joos  7 more pictures added to Mud Corner Cemetery in Belgium, courtesy of Geerhard Joos and Werner Van Caneghem  8 more pictures added to Mendinghem Military Cemetery in Belgium, courtesy of Geerhard Joos  14 more pictures added to Haverskerque British Cemetery in France, courtesy of Werner Van Caneghem  9 more pictures added to Wieltje Farm Cemetery in Belgium, courtesy of Geerhard Joos  |
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