BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.85277 Longitude: 2.79099
Location Information
Brandhoek Military Cemetery is located 6.5 km west of Ieper town centre on the Branderstraat, a road leading from the N308 connecting Ieper to Poperinge. From Ieper town centre the Poperingseweg (N308) is reached via Elverdingestraat then directly over two small roundabouts in the Capronstraat. The Poperingseweg is a continuation of the Capronstraat and begins after a prominent railway level crossing. 6 km along the N308, after passing the village of Vlamertinge and just beyond the church in the hamlet of Brandhoek, lies the left hand turning onto the Grote Branderstraat. The cemetery is located 300 metres along the Branderstraat on the left hand side of the road, beyond the N38 dual carriageway, which it is necessary to cross.
Wheelchair access to this cemetery possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
During the First World War, Brandhoek was within the area comparatively safe from shell fire which extended beyond Vlamertinghe Church. Field ambulances were posted there continuously and the Military Cemetery was opened early in May 1915 in a field adjoining the dressing station. It closed in July 1917 when the New Military Cemetery was opened nearby, to be followed by the New Military Cemetery No 3 in August 1917.
Brandhoek Military Cemetery now contains 671 First World War burials.
Total Burials: 671.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 598, Canada 63, Australia 4, Germany 1. Total 666.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and Noel Ackroyd Rew
Brandhoek Military Cemetery is located 6.5 km west of Ieper town centre on the Branderstraat, a road leading from the N308 connecting Ieper to Poperinge. From Ieper town centre the Poperingseweg (N308) is reached via Elverdingestraat then directly over two small roundabouts in the Capronstraat. The Poperingseweg is a continuation of the Capronstraat and begins after a prominent railway level crossing. 6 km along the N308, after passing the village of Vlamertinge and just beyond the church in the hamlet of Brandhoek, lies the left hand turning onto the Grote Branderstraat. The cemetery is located 300 metres along the Branderstraat on the left hand side of the road, beyond the N38 dual carriageway, which it is necessary to cross.
Wheelchair access to this cemetery possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
During the First World War, Brandhoek was within the area comparatively safe from shell fire which extended beyond Vlamertinghe Church. Field ambulances were posted there continuously and the Military Cemetery was opened early in May 1915 in a field adjoining the dressing station. It closed in July 1917 when the New Military Cemetery was opened nearby, to be followed by the New Military Cemetery No 3 in August 1917.
Brandhoek Military Cemetery now contains 671 First World War burials.
Total Burials: 671.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 598, Canada 63, Australia 4, Germany 1. Total 666.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and Noel Ackroyd Rew
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
Grave of 2/Lt. Arnold B. Vansittart, XI (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, wounded at Potijze, 11th May, 1915; died 12th May, 1915, aged 25. He is buried at Brandhoek Military Cemetery in Plot I. B. 18.
Second Lieutenant
Henry Herbert Bradshaw
74th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
22nd July 1917, aged 29.
Plot II. N. 12.
Son of Ernest Jones Bradshaw and Selina Mary Bradshaw, of Accrington; husband of Catherine Bradshaw, of Accrington, Lancs.
Henry Herbert Bradshaw
74th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
22nd July 1917, aged 29.
Plot II. N. 12.
Son of Ernest Jones Bradshaw and Selina Mary Bradshaw, of Accrington; husband of Catherine Bradshaw, of Accrington, Lancs.
56519 Private
James Edwards 20th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 9th June 1917. Plot I. E. 17. Click on obituary opposite to enlarge |
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17905 Private
Fred Rapson
10th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
24th June 1917.
Plot I. K. 41.
Fred Rapson
10th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
24th June 1917.
Plot I. K. 41.
142406 Sapper
John Coates Travis
39th Div. Signal Coy. Royal Engineers
11th July 1917, aged 20.
Plot I. N. 46.
Son of Fredk. John and Emily Travis, of Burnley.
His headstone bears the inscription; "In Affectionate Remembrance. His Wish Was To Serve."
John Coates Travis
39th Div. Signal Coy. Royal Engineers
11th July 1917, aged 20.
Plot I. N. 46.
Son of Fredk. John and Emily Travis, of Burnley.
His headstone bears the inscription; "In Affectionate Remembrance. His Wish Was To Serve."
4818 Corporal
E. Waldram
61st Company, Machine Gun Corps
10th June 1916.
Plot II. E. 6.
E. Waldram
61st Company, Machine Gun Corps
10th June 1916.
Plot II. E. 6.
The storm passes over Brandhoek.
7th May 1918; Plotting reference: 28G 12 Key feature: Brandhoek and Seven Farm. © IWM (BOX 135-546-7B-28G-1918)
Brandhoek, Belgium, c. June 1917. Outdoors group portrait of the officers and Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company at a camp near Poperinghe. The men are (left to right): back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Cyril Henry Clayton; 2nd Lieutenant (2Lt) Robert John Finlayson, accidentally killed 25th June 1917; Lt John MacDiarmid Royle; Captain (Capt) Donald Yates, MC; Lt Samuel James Lindsay; Lt ? John Edward Armstrong. Second row: Lt S.H. Jones; Lt Henry David Hill; Lt Walter Moore; Lt James Bowry; 3521 RSM Walter George Lyne. Front row: Capt Ronald Butler Hinder, MC; Capt Robert Adam Clinton, MC; Capt (later Major) Ernest Sleeman Anderson; Major James Douglas Henry, CO, OBE, DSO; Capt Oliver Holmes Woodward, MC and two bars; Lt Hubert Henry Carroll, MC; Lt Willoughby Manton, MC.
Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
August 1917; The nursing sisters' quarters at the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Brandhoek near Vlamertinghe. Note the duckboard pathway between the tents which are surrounded by sand bags. Two days after this photograph was taken every tent was riddled by shell fire.
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Two unidentified soldiers standing on a walkway outside tents of the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Brandhoek. A sign reading 'Preparation Tent' is outside the first tent on the left and a telegraph post is between the first two tents.
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