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HOP STORE CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen

​Belgium



GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.85486 Longitude: 2.80822
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Hop Store Cemetery
© Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information

Hop Store Cemetery is located 5.5 Kms west of Ieper town centre on the Casselsestraat, a road leading from the N308 Poperingseweg, connecting Ieper to Poperinge. From Ieper town centre, the Poperingseweg (N308) is reached via Elverdingsestraat, then directly over two small roundabouts is the J. Capronstraat. The Poperingseweg is a continuation of the J. Capronstraat and begins after a prominent railway level crossing. 5 Kms along the Poperingseweg, immediately after the village of Vlamertinge, lies the right hand turning on to Casselsestraat. The cemetery itself lies 100 metres after this right hand turning, on the right hand side of the road. The old hop store which gives the cemetery its name is still visible on the main road.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access to this cemetery with some difficulty. 


Historical Information

Although Vlamertinghe (now Vlamertinge) was just within range of the German artillery for the greater part of the First World War, units of Allied heavy artillery and field ambulances occasionally stationed their headquarters there.

The Hop Store Cemetery, opened in May 1915, was on the safer side of the village but it remained a small cemetery because of its position between a hedge and the premises of the hop store itself. The site was low and marshy, particularly at the west end, and was drained by the Royal Engineers early in 1917. 

There are now 251 First World War burials within the cemetery, almost exclusively of 1915 and 1917.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and Arthur James Scott Hutton

Total Burials: 251.

Identified Casualty Details: ​
United Kingdom 248, Canada 1.

Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

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18th Field Ambulance Dressing Station in the old Hop Store at Vlamertinghe, June 1915. 6th Division. © IWM Q 50241 (See below for modern day view)
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The same view today.
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8759 Private
Jack Collindridge
7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
26th November 1915, aged 30.
Plot I. D. 33.

His headstone bears the inscription "One Of The Best Too Dearly Loved To Be Forgotten"

Son of John and Lavinia Collindridge, of 29, Wombwell Main, nr. Barnsley, Yorkshire.

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293900 Gunner
Alfred Edward Haines
141st Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
24th June 1917, aged 29.
​Plot I. C. 39.



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49201 Lance Corporal
Vivian Cyril Holman
20th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
9th June 1917, aged 27.
Plot I. A. 57.


Son of John and Mahala Holman. Husband of V. C. Holman, 49 Fraser Street, Burnley.
Prior to enlisting, he was a beamer at Oakbank Mill.
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426547 Sapper
Henry Ernest Hulme
422nd (West Lancs) Field Company, Royal Engineers
7th June 1917, aged 20.
​Plot I. A. 50.


Son of Henry Ernest and Elizabeth Hulme, of 122, Speakman Rd., St. Helens, Lancs.

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428288 Serjeant
Matthew Paynter
2nd/2nd (West Lancs) Field Company, Royal Engineers
4th June 1917, aged 35.
Plot I. A. 31.

His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done"



Son of James and Mary Paynter, of 72, Greenfield Rd., St. Helens, Lancs, and husband of Mary Jane Paynter, of 94, Brynn St., St. Helens, Lancs.

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150556 Gunner
J. E. Rowlands
141st Heavy Battery Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery
8th August 1917, aged 29.
Plot I. C. 1.

Son of Frank and Mary Ann Rowlands, of 63, New Street, Burry Port, South Wales.


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Hop Store Cemetery c.1920. © Jeremy Gordon-Smith
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26th October 1917; Troops of the 2nd Australian Division conveyed in buses, passing through the village of Vlamertinghe, in the Ypres Reserve area in Belgium.

Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos

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Damage to Vlamertinghe Church, June 1915. © IWM Q 50239
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Damage to Vlamertinghe Church, June 1915. © IWM Q 50239

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