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VICHTE MILITARY CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen

​Belgium

GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.83449 Longitude: 3.38851
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Vichte Military Cemetery
Picture © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information

Vichte Military Cemetery is located 40 Kms east of Ieper town centre and 13 Kms east of Kortrijk. From the E17, Kortrijk Gent motorway, turn off at junction 4 onto the N36 towards Vichte. The village of Vichte is located 6 Kms along the N36. At the traffic lights in the village turn right into Beukenhofstraat, then take the second right hand turning into Lendedreef and first left into Elf Novemberlaan. The cemetery is located on the left hand side of the Elf Novemberlaan.

Visiting Information

Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.

Historical Information

The railway station at Vichte was captured by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment on 20 October 1918, and the village by the 9th (Scottish) Division two days later.

In Vichte Military Cemetery, Rows A and B and part of Row C in Plot I were made in October 1918, by the burial officers of the 9th and 31st Divisions, and the remainder of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields. In June 1933, a further 31 graves were moved here from SWEVEGHEM CHURCHYARD.

Vichte Military Cemetery now contains 236 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 60 of them unidentified. There are also two Second World War burials, one of which is unidentified.

Total Burials: 238.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 168, Canada 8. Total 176.

Unidentified World War One Casualties: 60.

World War Two Identified Casualty: United Kingdom 1.

World War Two Unidentified Casualty: 1.
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The cemetery was designed by
W H Cowlishaw.

Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
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A Royal Artillery Holt caterpillar tractor towing a howitzer near Courtrai, 18 October 1918. © IWM Q 3336
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82106 Private
Harold Clark
20th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
25th October 1918.
Plot III. A. 1.


Remembered by his parents William and Fanny Clark from Leeds, his wife Lily and a young daughter Irene, who he never met.

Picture courtesy of Margaret Shutt



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63896 Private
Edwin Clapham
18th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
31st October 1918, aged 20.
Plot I. C. 9. (Coll.)

Son of Richard and Betsy Clapham, of Oaklands, Bentham, Lancaster.

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171612 Gunner
Percy Higginbottom
285th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
31st October 1918.
Plot I. BB. 3.



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7523 Lance Corporal
Frank Histed
12th Bn. East Surrey Regiment
26th October 1918.
​Plot III. D. 1.



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16633 Private
Alexander M. Kydd
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
20th October 1918, aged 23.
Plot I. A. 1.

Son of Mrs Ann Mitchell,(formerly Kydd), of 32, St. Vigeans Rd, Arbroath, and the late William Kydd.

His headstone bears the inscription "Let The Heart Of Them Rejoice That Seek The Lord"



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10034 Private
Henry Lea
41st Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
25th October 1918, aged 36.
Plot III. B. 8.

Husband of Annie Lea, of 4 Court, Moss St., Prescot, Lancs.

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63285 Lance Corporal
Harold Marshall
18th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
31st October 1918.
Plot I
. C. 9. (Coll.)


​Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
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May 1952
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204000 Private
John Peacock
19th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
31st October 1918.
​Plot II. C. 1.



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Lieutenant
Charles Ernest Phillips, M. C. 
4th Bn. attached to 7th (South Irish Horse) Bn. Royal Irish Regiment
22nd October 1918, aged 31.
Plot V. D. 4.


Son of Evan Charles Phillips and Martha Phillips, of Newtown, Montgomeryshire. An Official in Lloyd's Bank Limited.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Ever Loving Memory Of Our Dear Brother Thy Will Be Done"


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380565 Private
Frederick Victor Scales
15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment
26th October 1918, aged 21.
Plot III. C. 4.

Son of William Alfred and Elizabeth Scales; husband of Florence S. Scales, of 15, North End Grove, North End, Portsmouth. Born at Cogenor, Northants.

His headstone bears the inscription "Yet A Little While"


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Lieutenant
Roy Reid Thomson
70th squadron, Royal Air Force
3rd November 1918.
​Plot I. BB. 7.



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Lieutenant
Ralph Piggott Whittington, M. C. 
East Yorkshire Regiment
11th November 1918.
​Plot I. BB. 12




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Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery
Vichte Military Cemetery

The Two World War 2 Burials (1 is unidentified)

Vichte Military Cemetery, WW2
Vichte Military Cemetery, WW2
Vichte Military Cemetery, WW2
WW2, Vichte Military Cemetery
6093042 Private Jeremiah Edward McDouall, 1/6th Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), died 27th May 1940, aged 24. Row 5. D. 1A. Son of William Scott McDouall, and of Ellen McDouall, of Limehouse, London.
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Belgian refugee family in a British horse-drawn wagon. Courtrai, 18 October 1918. British soldier holding one of their children. © IWM Q 11395
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Battle of Courtrai. Belgian civilian women examining a German Maxim machine gun post which was outside their cottage. Near Heule, 15 October 1918. © IWM Q 7122
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Battle of Courtrai. Sergeant of the Royal Army Medical Corps tending a Belgian wounded woman at an Advanced Aid Post near Heule, 15 October 1918. © IWM Q 7121
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Damage inflicted in the Belgian town of Kortrijk by the British artillery, September 1917. © IWM Q 87643

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