BRIDGE HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.87972 Longitude: 2.93675
Location Information
Bridge House Cemetery is located 5 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre on the Roeselarestraat, a road leading from the Brugseweg (N313), connecting Ieper to Brugge.
Two streets connect Ieper town centre onto the Brugseweg; Torhoutstraat leads from the market square onto the Kalfvaartstraat. At the end of Kalfvaartstraat is a large junction on which Brugseweg is the first right hand turning. 5 kilometres along the Brugseweg, just before the village of St-Juliaan, lies the right hand turning onto the Peperstraat. 1 kilometre along the Peperstraat lies the right hand turning onto Roeselarestraat. The cemetery is located immediately after this junction on the left hand side of Roeselarestraat.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
Bridge House Cemetery, named after a farmhouse, was made by the 59th (North Midland) Division at the end of September 1917. All the graves but five are those of soldiers of that division, and all except one date from 26-28 September and the Battle of Polygon Wood.
The cemetery contains 45 First World War burials, four of them unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by A J S Hutton.
Total Burials: 45.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 41.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 4.
Bridge House Cemetery is located 5 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre on the Roeselarestraat, a road leading from the Brugseweg (N313), connecting Ieper to Brugge.
Two streets connect Ieper town centre onto the Brugseweg; Torhoutstraat leads from the market square onto the Kalfvaartstraat. At the end of Kalfvaartstraat is a large junction on which Brugseweg is the first right hand turning. 5 kilometres along the Brugseweg, just before the village of St-Juliaan, lies the right hand turning onto the Peperstraat. 1 kilometre along the Peperstraat lies the right hand turning onto Roeselarestraat. The cemetery is located immediately after this junction on the left hand side of Roeselarestraat.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
Bridge House Cemetery, named after a farmhouse, was made by the 59th (North Midland) Division at the end of September 1917. All the graves but five are those of soldiers of that division, and all except one date from 26-28 September and the Battle of Polygon Wood.
The cemetery contains 45 First World War burials, four of them unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by A J S Hutton.
Total Burials: 45.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 41.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 4.
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
241016 Private
Fred Firth
1st/6th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
6th September 1917.
Row B. 13.
Fred Firth
1st/6th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
6th September 1917.
Row B. 13.
241946 Private
Henry Jackson
1st/6th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
6th September 1917, aged 27.
Row B. 8.
Son of Mrs. Emma Lumb, of 224, Oldham Rd., Rochdale.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Thy Will Be Done."
Henry Jackson
1st/6th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
6th September 1917, aged 27.
Row B. 8.
Son of Mrs. Emma Lumb, of 224, Oldham Rd., Rochdale.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Thy Will Be Done."
241960 Private
Percy Pashley
2nd/5th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
26th September 1917.
Row. A. 10.
Percy Pashley
2nd/5th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
26th September 1917.
Row. A. 10.
202818 Private
William Frank Smith
2nd/4th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
26th September 1917.
Row B. 11.
William Frank Smith
2nd/4th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
26th September 1917.
Row B. 11.
Captured German officers guarded by a Scottish sentry outside a recently taken concrete bunker near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkapelle), 12 October 1917. © IWM (Q 3013)
First Battle of Passchendaele. Two guardsmen bringing in a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkapelle), 12 October 1917. © IWM (Q 3009)
