TRACK X CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.87807, Longitude: 2.91111
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 next roundabout. Here turn right into Oude Veurnestraat, this then changes into Diksmuidseweg and Brugseweg. Drive along this road and continue straight over the traffic lights to the end of the road. At the T junction turn left (still Brugseweg) and continue along this road through the village of Saint Jan (N313). Follow this road to the end. You come to the junction with the N38, straight across this junction into Hogeziekenweg. After 50 metres the road bends sharply to the left, follow the road to the crossroads, then turn right into the Moortelweg. The cemetery is approximately 150 metres down this road on the right hand side.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site, makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The site of the cemetery was between the Allied and German front lines in June 1917. The cemetery was begun by the 39th and 48th (South Midland) Divisions at the end of July, after Commonwealth forces advanced on this front. It was closed in November 1917, except for two burials in May 1918.
There are now 150 First World War burials in the cemetery, 28 of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 150.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 118, Canada 4. Total 122.
Unidentified Casualties: 28.
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 next roundabout. Here turn right into Oude Veurnestraat, this then changes into Diksmuidseweg and Brugseweg. Drive along this road and continue straight over the traffic lights to the end of the road. At the T junction turn left (still Brugseweg) and continue along this road through the village of Saint Jan (N313). Follow this road to the end. You come to the junction with the N38, straight across this junction into Hogeziekenweg. After 50 metres the road bends sharply to the left, follow the road to the crossroads, then turn right into the Moortelweg. The cemetery is approximately 150 metres down this road on the right hand side.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site, makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The site of the cemetery was between the Allied and German front lines in June 1917. The cemetery was begun by the 39th and 48th (South Midland) Divisions at the end of July, after Commonwealth forces advanced on this front. It was closed in November 1917, except for two burials in May 1918.
There are now 150 First World War burials in the cemetery, 28 of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 150.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 118, Canada 4. Total 122.
Unidentified Casualties: 28.
Captain
Frederick Dudley Andrews, M.C.
1st/4th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
14th August 1917
Row D. 21.
Son of Thomas and Edith Andrews, of Old College House, Lichfield, Staffs; husband of Gladys Ethel Andrews, of Shustoke, Warwickshire.
Frederick Dudley Andrews, M.C.
1st/4th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
14th August 1917
Row D. 21.
Son of Thomas and Edith Andrews, of Old College House, Lichfield, Staffs; husband of Gladys Ethel Andrews, of Shustoke, Warwickshire.
77685 Gunner
Lionel Henry Rooke
223rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
31st July 1917, aged 24.
Row E. 8.
Son of Thomas Thorpe Rooke and Fanny Rooke, of 29, Field Lane, Batley, Yorks. Native of Ossett, Yorks.
His headstone bears the inscription "Nearer My God To Thee"
Lionel Henry Rooke
223rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
31st July 1917, aged 24.
Row E. 8.
Son of Thomas Thorpe Rooke and Fanny Rooke, of 29, Field Lane, Batley, Yorks. Native of Ossett, Yorks.
His headstone bears the inscription "Nearer My God To Thee"
1000455 Private
Thomas Alexander Woods
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
6th November 1917.
Row A. 5.
Thomas Alexander Woods
16th Bn. Canadian Infantry
6th November 1917.
Row A. 5.
Troops carrying wire over ice and mud at Wieltje, near Ypres, 18 February 1918. © IWM (Q 8512)
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
Men from the Royal Artillery outside the German pill box which they used as a dug-out, near Wieltje, 11 January 1918. The ground surrounding the pillbox is waterlogged and shell-marked, indications of the heavy fighting and subsequent bad weather in the area. © IWM (Q 8426)
c. 1917. A German Army Commander with his adjutant and staff being held as prisoners of war at St Jean. This group were captured in a dugout during the battle at Broodseinde. The Commander is second from the left.
Infantry wearing bandoliers of ammunition in support trench at Wieltje, 19 August 1917. © IWM (Q 5888)
A working party going up at night on a duck board track through the flooded shell-holes. Wieltje, 11 January 1918. © IWM (Q 8428)
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)
