WW1 Cemeteries.com - A photographic guide to over 4000 military cemeteries and memorials
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Belgium
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in Belgium in Alphabetical Order
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in Belgium >
      • HAINAUT
      • WEST-VLAANDEREN
      • OTHER BELGIAN DEPARTMENTS
    • BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERIES
    • BELGIAN MEMORIALS
  • France
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France in Alphabetical Order
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France >
      • AISNE
      • MARNE
      • NORD
      • OISE
      • PAS DE CALAIS
      • SEINE-ET-MARNE
      • SEINE-MARITIME
      • SOMME
      • OTHER FRENCH DEPARTMENTS
    • FRENCH CEMETERIES WORLDWIDE
    • French Memorials
  • Gallipoli
  • Other CWGC Countries
  • GERMAN CEMETERIES
  • OTHER WAR AND MILITARY CEMETERIES
  • Architects
  • Shot at Dawn
  • Victoria Cross
  • Miscellaneous
  • Regimental Badges
  • "Silent Cities" Revisited

NO MAN'S COT CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen

​Belgium

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.8839 Longitude: 2.89326
​

No Man's Cot Cemetery
Location Information

The cemetery is located to the North-East of the town of Ieper. From the station turn left and drive along M.Fochlaan to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left into M.Haiglaan and drive to the traffic lights. Here turn right onto the dual carriageway direction Poelkapelle/A19. Carry on for about 1km over the river and you will see a sign for New Irish Farm Cemetery. Turn left here into Briekestraat, past New Irish Farm Cemetery to the crossroads. Straight over into Moortelweg, follow to the 2nd crossroads and turn left. The cemetery is approx 400 metres along on the left hand side. 


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.


Historical Information

For most of the First World War, the east side of the village of Boesinghe (now Boezinge) directly faced the German front line.

No Man's Cot Cemetery was named from a building on the south side of Admiral's Road, a little more than half way from Boesinghe to Wieltje. It was used from the end of July 1917 to March 1918.  

No Man's Cot Cemetery contains 79 First World War burials. More than half of the graves are of officers and men of the 51st (Highland) Division.

The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.

Total Burials: 79.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 77.

Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 2.
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
Picture
Second Lieutenant
Joseph Francis Avery
10th Bn. Welsh Regiment
31st July 1917, aged 23.
Row B. 4.

Son of Andrew James and Rosalea S. Pitre Avery, of Quinla La Primavera, Quilmes, Argentina.

​His headstone bears the inscription; "Fight The Good Fight Of Faith."


Picture
Lieutenant
Clifford Stanton, Mentioned in Despatches
10th Bn. Welsh Regiment
31st July 1917, aged 23.
Row B. 1.

Son of C. B. Stanton, C.B.E., J.P., M.P., and Alice Maud Stanton, of Tydraw House, Aberdare.

Picture
265170 Private
James Stewart
"B" Coy. 5th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
31st July 1917, aged 23.
Row A. 6.

Son of William and Mary Stewart, of Aberlour, Banffshire.


Picture
British troops pose for a photograph on the remains of a German concrete pill box now being used as the roof of a British dug-out near Boesinghe, 28 January 1918. © IWM (Q 10633)

​​​​Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
No Man's Cot Cemetery
Picture
Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Royal Engineers carrying wood for a bridge across the Yser Canal. Note the mud and the wearing of waterproof sheets. Near Boesinghe, August 1917. © IWM (Q 5936)
Picture
Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Stretcher bearers struggle in mud up to their knees to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe, 1 August 1917. Identified front, centre is Private Cecil Hawkins a stretcher bearer with 106 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps © IWM (Q 5935)

Nearby Cemeteries

Track X Cemetery
Divisional Collecting Post & Extension Cemetery
Minty Farm Cemetery

World War Two Cemeteries
​

Please ask permission if you wish to use any of our images by using the contact tab above
​

Picture
Commonwealth War Graves
​Commission
Picture
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Picture
Australian War Memorial
Picture
New Zealand Online Cenotaph

​© COPYRIGHT TERENCE HEARD AND BRENT WHITTAM
​ 2005-2023 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
.​
Disclaimer 

The casualty numbers for each cemetery and G. P. S. Coordinates are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the burial numbers quoted due to rededication burials.

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Belgium
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in Belgium in Alphabetical Order
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in Belgium >
      • HAINAUT
      • WEST-VLAANDEREN
      • OTHER BELGIAN DEPARTMENTS
    • BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERIES
    • BELGIAN MEMORIALS
  • France
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France in Alphabetical Order
    • Commonwealth Cemeteries in France >
      • AISNE
      • MARNE
      • NORD
      • OISE
      • PAS DE CALAIS
      • SEINE-ET-MARNE
      • SEINE-MARITIME
      • SOMME
      • OTHER FRENCH DEPARTMENTS
    • FRENCH CEMETERIES WORLDWIDE
    • French Memorials
  • Gallipoli
  • Other CWGC Countries
  • GERMAN CEMETERIES
  • OTHER WAR AND MILITARY CEMETERIES
  • Architects
  • Shot at Dawn
  • Victoria Cross
  • Miscellaneous
  • Regimental Badges
  • "Silent Cities" Revisited