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NIEUWPOORT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen

​Belgium

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 51.13007 Longitude: 2.76444
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Nieuwpoort Communal Cemetery
© Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information

Nieuwpoort Communal Cemetery is located in the town of Nieuwpoort, which is 20 Kms south west of Oostende.

From Oostende the N34 carries on to the N367 immediately after the King Albert Monument and the Achterhaven. 2 Kms along the N367 Brugsesteenweg lies the cemetery, on the right hand side of the road.

Visiting Information

This cemetery is open daily from dawn to sunset.

Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.

Historical Information

Nieuwpoort (also known as Nieuport) was about the middle of the line held by XV Corps in June-November 1917. On 10 July 1917, there was heavy fighting in this sector as the Germans mounted an attack from Nieuwpoort northwards. Most of those buried in the cemetery died in June, July and August.

In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk.

The cemetery contains 70 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (three of them unidentified) and 31 from the Second World War (four unidentified).
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Total Burials: 101.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 67. Total 67.

World War One Unidentified Casualties: 3.

​World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 25, Canada 2. Total 27.

World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 4.


The commonwealth war graves plot was designed by George Hartley Goldsmith
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World War One Burials

Pictures © Werner Van Caneghem

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British soldier sitting in the hole made by a shell in a gasometer at Nieuport, 30th July 1917. © IWM Q 2642
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A communication trench and dug-out in the dunes of the Nieuport Sector. Graves in the foreground. © IWM Q 41762
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A soldier of the 4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in the trenches at Nieuport Bains, 8th September 1917. He is using a trench periscope to view the German line. © IWM Q 2877

World War Two Burials & Cemetery Plan

Cemetery Pictures © Werner Van Caneghem

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B/66703 Private
Charles Thomas Christie
Royal Regiment of Canada, R. C. I. C. 
19th August 1942.
Plot III. 15.

Husband of D. Christie, of Uckfield, Sussex.

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German trenches at Nieuport. © IWM Q 55181
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Baroness Elsie de T'Serclaes (aka Elsie Knocker) and her friend, Mairi Chisholm in a Belgian reserve trench near Nieuport. © IWM Q 3959
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A soldier of the 4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in the trenches at Nieuport Bains, 8th September 1917. He is using a trench periscope to view the German line. © IWM Q 2877

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