LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.79121 Longitude: 2.84203
Picture © Geerhard Joos
© Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information
La Laiterie Military Cemetery is located 7 Kms south of Ieper town centre on the Kemmelseweg (N331), connecting Ieper to Kemmel.
From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and straight on towards Armentieres (N336). 900 metres after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg made prominent by a level crossing. The cemetery is located on the right hand side of the road, 5 Kms after joining the Kemmelseweg.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to site possible - maybe by an alternative entrance.
Historical Information
The cemetery, named from a dairy farm, was begun in November 1914 and used until October 1918 by units holding this sector of the front. The different plots were, to a great extent, treated as regimental burial grounds; the majority of the graves in Plots II, III and X, for instance, were those of the 26th, 25th and 24th Canadian Infantry Battalions, respectively, and all but one of the graves in Plot VIII are those of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers. On 25 April 1918, the cemetery fell into German hands, but it was retaken at the beginning of September. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields north and north-east of Kemmel.
There are now 751 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 180 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate two servicemen whose graves were destroyed in later fighting.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and George Hartley Goldsmith
Total Burials: 751.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 377, Canada 190, Australia 3. Total 571.
Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) hut at La Laiterie (Kemmel), June 1917. © IWM Q 6171
Captain
Edward George Clarkson Bagshawe
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
20th July 1916, aged 36.
Plot VII. D. 12.
Son of the late Judge Bagshawe, K.C.
Edward George Clarkson Bagshawe
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
20th July 1916, aged 36.
Plot VII. D. 12.
Son of the late Judge Bagshawe, K.C.
2717 Private
Linford Frederick Boothby
4th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment
14th July 1916, aged 18.
Plot III. D. 4.
Son of Mr. L J Boothby, of 27, Strawberry St., Drypool, Hull.
Linford Frederick Boothby
4th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment
14th July 1916, aged 18.
Plot III. D. 4.
Son of Mr. L J Boothby, of 27, Strawberry St., Drypool, Hull.
19885 Bombardier
Wilfred Strode, M. M.
"D" Bty. 177th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
20th June 1917, aged 24.
Plot XII. A. 15.
Son of George and Georgina Strode, of Batcombe, Dorset.
Wilfred Strode, M. M.
"D" Bty. 177th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
20th June 1917, aged 24.
Plot XII. A. 15.
Son of George and Georgina Strode, of Batcombe, Dorset.
Men of the 2nd Suffolks in M. 1 trench, Vierstraat, Spring 1915.
© IWM Q 50450
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) hut at La Laiterie (Kemmel), June 1917. © IWM Q 6170
Vierstraat, Spring 1915. © IWM Q 50455
