INGOYGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.81946 Longitude: 3.43483
Location Information
Ingoyghem (now Ingooigem) is a village and commune 14 Kms east of Kortrijk. From the E17 motorway, turn off at Junction 4 in the direction of Vichte along the N36. Follow the N36 to the village of Ingooigem. In the village take the third turning on the left into Sint-Antoniusstraat. The Cemetery is located along this street on the right.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
The village of Ingoyghem was taken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 25 October 1918. The military cemetery had been started by the Germans and 54 of their graves (only three of them identified) remain in the south end.
Practically all of the 88 First World War Commonwealth burials and commemorations in the cemetery date from October 1918. 31 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate five casualties known to be buried among them. There are also three burials from the Second World War, one of which is unidentified, all dating from May 1940.
Total Burials: 145.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 54, Canada 3, Germany 3. Total 60.
World War One Unidentified Casualties: Germany 51, Commonwealth 31. Total 82.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2. Total 2.
World War Two Unidentified Casualty: 1. Total 1.
Cemetery designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Ingoyghem (now Ingooigem) is a village and commune 14 Kms east of Kortrijk. From the E17 motorway, turn off at Junction 4 in the direction of Vichte along the N36. Follow the N36 to the village of Ingooigem. In the village take the third turning on the left into Sint-Antoniusstraat. The Cemetery is located along this street on the right.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to this cemetery is possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
The village of Ingoyghem was taken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 25 October 1918. The military cemetery had been started by the Germans and 54 of their graves (only three of them identified) remain in the south end.
Practically all of the 88 First World War Commonwealth burials and commemorations in the cemetery date from October 1918. 31 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate five casualties known to be buried among them. There are also three burials from the Second World War, one of which is unidentified, all dating from May 1940.
Total Burials: 145.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 54, Canada 3, Germany 3. Total 60.
World War One Unidentified Casualties: Germany 51, Commonwealth 31. Total 82.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2. Total 2.
World War Two Unidentified Casualty: 1. Total 1.
Cemetery designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
3925 Rifleman
Robert Hart
12th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles
25th October 1918.
Row A. 17.
Robert Hart
12th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles
25th October 1918.
Row A. 17.
38365 Private
Albert Howarth
8th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
28th October 1918.
Row C. 2.
Albert Howarth
8th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
28th October 1918.
Row C. 2.
825943 Gunner
Bernard Kitchener Jones
69 (The Denbighshire Yeomanry) Medium Regt. Royal Artillery
21st May 1940, aged 25.
Row D. 2.
Bernard Kitchener Jones
69 (The Denbighshire Yeomanry) Medium Regt. Royal Artillery
21st May 1940, aged 25.
Row D. 2.
3686 Private
Isaac Penny
1st Bn. Newfoundland Regiment
26th October 1918, aged 25.
Row A. 5.
Son of Charles Penny, of Brooklyn, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Gone But Not Forgotten."
Isaac Penny
1st Bn. Newfoundland Regiment
26th October 1918, aged 25.
Row A. 5.
Son of Charles Penny, of Brooklyn, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland.
His headstone bears the inscription; "Gone But Not Forgotten."
Flight Sub-Lieutenant
Kenneth Marsden Van Allen
5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service
4th May 1916, aged 27.
German Plot: E. 17.
Son of Letitia P. Van Allen, of Chatham, Ontario, and the late E. W. H. Van Allen. Born at Winnipeg, Canada.
Kenneth Marsden Van Allen
5 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service
4th May 1916, aged 27.
German Plot: E. 17.
Son of Letitia P. Van Allen, of Chatham, Ontario, and the late E. W. H. Van Allen. Born at Winnipeg, Canada.
British soldiers examining a German 10.5 cm FH 98/09 field howitzer, abandoned on a road near Courtrai, 18 October 1918. Some of the horses of the team were killed by shell fire. © IWM Q 11388
Battle of Courtrai. Sergeant of the Royal Army Medical Corps tending a wounded Belgian woman at an Advanced Aid Post near Heule, 15 October 1918. © IWM Q 7121
Two Belgian refugee children in an Army Service Corps wagon. Courtrai, 20 October 1918. The soldier on the right is a Royal Artillery gunner. © IWM Q 11391
Belgian refugee family in a British horse-drawn wagon. Courtrai, 18 October 1918. British soldier holding one of their children. © IWM Q 11395
Battle of Courtrai. Belgian civilian women examining a German Maxim machine gun post which was outside their cottage. Near Heule, 15 October 1918. © IWM Q 7122
