Godezonne Farm Cemetery, Belgium (CWGC)

GODEZONNE FARM CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen

Belgium

GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.80062 Longitude: 2.84041

Picture © Geerhard Joos

Location Information

Godezonne Farm Cemetery is located 7 km south west of Ieper town centre, on the Kriekstraat, a road leading from the Kemmelseweg. (Joining Ieper to Kemmel N331). From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort), and straight on towards Armentieres (N365). 900 metres after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg. (Made prominent by a railway level crossing).

5 km along the Kemmelseweg lies the right hand turning onto Poperingstraat. 800 metres along the Poperingstraat is the left hand turning onto Kriekstraat.

Godezonne Farm Cemetery itself is located 800 metres along the Kriekstraat on the left hand side of the road.

Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible via main entrance.

Historical Information

Godezonne cemetery was made in the garden of Godezonne Farm, between February and May 1915 by the 2nd Royal Scots and the 4th Middlesex. Three further burials were added in 1916 and the cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from a wide area north and east of Kemmel.

Godezonne Farm Cemetery contains 79 First World War burials, 44 of them unidentified.

The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.

Total Burials: 79.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 33, Canada 1, South Africa 1. Total 35.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 41, South Africa 2, Australia 1. Total 44.

Pictures in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

Ruins of Kemmel Church and village of Kemmel. Taken from eastern slopes of Kemmel Hill. © IWM (Q 17843)

A wounded man on a stretcher is put back on to the trolley to be taken to the rear. By the side of the trolley walks a military chaplain. Near Kemmel, 10 June 1917. © IWM (Q 5626)

Lieutenant
Lachlan Henry Veitch Fraser, Mentioned in Despatches
4th Bn. Middlesex Regiment
24th February 1915, aged 20.
Plot I. A. 7.

Son of Major Francis and Beatrice de Dombal Fraser, of Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire.

His headstone bears the inscription "Beloved Son Of Beatrice and Francis Fraser Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire"

Second Lieutenant
Charles Hedderwick
"B" Company, 2nd Bn. Royal Scots
28th February 1915, aged 25.
Row I. A. 5.

Son of Edwin Charles and Mary Hedderwick, of 17, Kew Terrace, Glasgow.

His headstone bears the inscription "Killed In Action While Aiding The Wounded. Blessed Are The Merciful"

Captain
The Honourable Douglas Arthur Kinnaird
1st Bn. Scots Guards
24th October 1914, aged 35.
Plot II. A. 1.

Master of Kinnaird. Son of 11th Baron Kinnaird, of Rossie Priory, Inchture, Perthshire. His brother The Hon Arthur Middleton also fell and is buried in Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery in France.

Lieutenant
Eric Elsdale Molson
3rd Bn. Royal Scots
1st April 1915, aged 21.
Plot I. A. 9.

Son of Major J. Elsdale Molson and Mary Molson, of Goring Hall, Worthing. Born at Chelmsford.

His headstone bears the inscription "Remember Him O Lord The Brave And True With Long Life Satisfy Him"

Captain
Harry Douglas Saward, Mentioned in Despatches
2nd Bn. Royal Scots
23rd March 1915, aged 30.
Plot I. A. 3.

Only son of Maj. Gen. M. H. Saward, R.H.A., and Katherine Isabella, his wife, of 29, Brechin Place, South Kensington, London. Proceeded to France Aug., 1914. Born at Shoeburyness School of Gunnery on 25th Jan.,1885.

April 1918; Directional notices in a battle scarred village in the Kemmel area.

The Battle of the Lys. Royal Artillery Observation Officer setting his lamp to signal back to his battery the results of firing. Kemmel, 22 April 1918. © IWM (Q 7872)