SUFFOLK CEMETERY, VIERSTRAAT
Kemmel
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.80332, Longitude: 2.84469
Location Information
Suffolk Cemetery is located 6 Km south west of Ieper town centre, on the Kriekstraat, a road leading from the Kemmelseweg. (Joining Ieper to Kemmel N331).
From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort), and straight on towards Armentieres (N365). 900 m after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg. (Made prominent by a railway level crossing).
5 Km along the Kemmelseweg lies the right hand turning onto Vierstraat. 800 metres along the Vierstraat is the left hand turning onto the Kriekstraat; the cemetery is located 50 metres further on the right hand side of the road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
This cemetery was begun in March and April 1915 by the 2nd Suffolks. Apart from one burial made in November 1917, the cemetery was not used again until October 1918 when the 38th Labour Group buried men killed during the German advance the previous April, all but two of whom belonged to the 1st/4th and 1st/5th York and Lancasters. At this time, it was called Cheapside Cemetery.
Suffolk Cemetery contains 47 First World War burials, eight of them unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total burials: 47.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 39.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 8.
Suffolk Cemetery is located 6 Km south west of Ieper town centre, on the Kriekstraat, a road leading from the Kemmelseweg. (Joining Ieper to Kemmel N331).
From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort), and straight on towards Armentieres (N365). 900 m after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg. (Made prominent by a railway level crossing).
5 Km along the Kemmelseweg lies the right hand turning onto Vierstraat. 800 metres along the Vierstraat is the left hand turning onto the Kriekstraat; the cemetery is located 50 metres further on the right hand side of the road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
This cemetery was begun in March and April 1915 by the 2nd Suffolks. Apart from one burial made in November 1917, the cemetery was not used again until October 1918 when the 38th Labour Group buried men killed during the German advance the previous April, all but two of whom belonged to the 1st/4th and 1st/5th York and Lancasters. At this time, it was called Cheapside Cemetery.
Suffolk Cemetery contains 47 First World War burials, eight of them unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
Total burials: 47.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 39.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 8.
Men of the 2nd Suffolks in M. 1 trench, Vierstraat, Spring 1915. © IWM Q 50450
Images in this gallery ©Werner Van Caneghem
18516 Private
Percy Cyril Frank Hutchinson
1st/4th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
26th April 1918.
Row C. 13.
Percy Cyril Frank Hutchinson
1st/4th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
26th April 1918.
Row C. 13.
May 1918; A German Army central medical dressing station in the Kemmel area with a motorised ambulance and truck and a horse team.
May 1918; Four German Army soldiers running forward to observe Allied Army positions in the Kemmel Area.
German lines from M1 trench, Vierstraat Area, spring 1915. In the distance, Hollandscheschur Farm, the shelling of which by British Artillery was witnessed by H. M. the King of the Belgians on February 8th, 1915. © IWM (Q 50449)
Vierstraat, Spring 1915. © IWM Q 50455
Vierstraat, Spring 1915. © IWM Q 50452
