DIVISIONAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.8482 Longitude: 2.85833
Location Information
Divisional Cemetery, Dickebusch Road is located 2 km west of Ieper town centre. From Ieper town centre the Poperingseweg (N308), is reached via Elverdingsestraat then straight over two small roundabouts in the J. Capronstraat. The Poperingseweg is a continuation of J. Capronstraat and begins after a prominent railway level crossing. 1km along the Poperingseweg lies the left hand turning onto Omloopstraat. The cemetery itself is located 100 metres along the Omloopstraat on the right hand side of the road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access with some difficulty.
Historical Information
The cemetery was first used by Commonwealth units at the end of April 1915 and continued in use until May 1916. Row C contains the collective grave of 23 men of the 2nd Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment who were killed in the German gas attack at Hill 60 on 5 May 1915. The cemetery was used again from July 1917, mostly by artillery units, for burials arising from the 1917 Flanders offensive.
There are now 283 First World War burials within the cemetery.
Total Burials: 283.
Identified Casualties: United KIngdom 187, New Zealand 65, Canada 25. Total 277.
Unidentified Casualties: 6.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw
Divisional Cemetery, Dickebusch Road is located 2 km west of Ieper town centre. From Ieper town centre the Poperingseweg (N308), is reached via Elverdingsestraat then straight over two small roundabouts in the J. Capronstraat. The Poperingseweg is a continuation of J. Capronstraat and begins after a prominent railway level crossing. 1km along the Poperingseweg lies the left hand turning onto Omloopstraat. The cemetery itself is located 100 metres along the Omloopstraat on the right hand side of the road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access with some difficulty.
Historical Information
The cemetery was first used by Commonwealth units at the end of April 1915 and continued in use until May 1916. Row C contains the collective grave of 23 men of the 2nd Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment who were killed in the German gas attack at Hill 60 on 5 May 1915. The cemetery was used again from July 1917, mostly by artillery units, for burials arising from the 1917 Flanders offensive.
There are now 283 First World War burials within the cemetery.
Total Burials: 283.
Identified Casualties: United KIngdom 187, New Zealand 65, Canada 25. Total 277.
Unidentified Casualties: 6.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and William Harrison Cowlishaw
Battles of Ypres. A 12inch howitzer of the 104th Siege Battery in Ypres. 27th August 1917. © IWM Q 7807
1575 Private
William Cartledge
1st/6th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
28th July 1915
Row F. 4.
William Cartledge
1st/6th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
28th July 1915
Row F. 4.
18278 Gunner
Duncan Charles McNicol
New Zealand Field Artillery
10th January 1918, aged 26.
Row M. 9.
Son of Duncan and Margaret Annie McNicol, of Te Aroha, New Zealand.
Duncan Charles McNicol
New Zealand Field Artillery
10th January 1918, aged 26.
Row M. 9.
Son of Duncan and Margaret Annie McNicol, of Te Aroha, New Zealand.
A British signaller and his dog in a dugout with the first issue of respirator at Ypres, May 1915. © IWM Q 61600
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
Poperinghe - Ypres Line. Entrance to Ypres Station - looking North west. 20. 2. 18. © IWM Q 46636
Cemetery images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
Views of the battlefield after the third Battle of Ypres, 1917. A soldier look across devastated country near Ypres showing a derelict Mark IV Tank, shell-splintered trees and general battle detritus, 15 February 1918. © IWM Q 10711
A composite fatigue party loading stones for road repairs into lorries from a heap beside the railway line. Dickebusch, 9 August 1917. © IWM (Q 5851)
Men of the 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment resting in camp near Dickebusch on 9 August 1917. Prior to coming out of the line this battalion had taken part in an attack on Shrewsbury Forest on 31 July 1917, during which the unit lost its commanding officer, 11 officers and 246 men. © IWM Q 5847
