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YPRES TOWN CEMETERY

Ypres (Ieper) was, from October, 1914, to the summer of 1918, the centre of a Salient held by the British (and for some months by the French) forces in Belgium. From April, 1915, it was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the Western front. It was surrounded by ramparts and a moat; and from these, on its Eastern side, issued the road to Menin. The Menin Gate has been rebuilt as a Memorial to some of those who fell in the Salient and have no known graves; and close to the Menin Gate is the Town Cemetery, in which the British forces began to bury their dead in October, 1914.

Ypres Town Cemetery was used by the British forces until February, 1915, and once again in 1918.

There are now nearly 150, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.

The British plots covers an area of 493 square metres.

Burials (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) :

United Kingdom : 144
Undivided India : 1

Total Commonwealth : 145

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- Location

Ypres Town Cemetery is located 1 kilometre east of Ieper town centre, on the Zonnebeekseweg, connecting Ieper to Menen on the N345. From Ieper town centre the Zonnebeekseweg is located via Torhoutstraat and right onto Basculestraat. Basculestraat ends at a main crossroads, and the Zonnebeekseweg is the first left turning. The cemetery itself is located 300 metres along the Zonnebeekseweg on the right hand side of the road.

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- Coördinates

GPS reference	R5615 - Ypres Town Cemetery
DSMX	N 50°51'12.3'' - E002°53'53.5''
DMX	N 50°51.206' - E002°53.892'
D	N 50.853426° - E002.898202°
UTM	31U E 492834 N 5633530
Google Earth	50 51.206 N, 002 53.892 E

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- Routes in the surroundings

In Flanders Fields Route

- Bycicle mappoints in the surroundings

Zuid33 IEPER

- Horeca in the surroundings

Hotels
	Novotel Ieper Centrum	Sint-Jacobsstraat 15	8900	Ieper	Ieper
	Tel : +32 (0)57 42 96 00	Fax: +32 (0)57 42 96 01

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