Tyne Cot
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Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside Passendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.
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Tyne Cot | |
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
Used for those deceased 1917–1918 | |
Established | October 1917 |
Location | 50°53′13″N 02°59′53″E near Passendale, West Flanders, Belgium |
Designed by | Sir Herbert Baker |
Total burials | 11,965, of which 8,369 are unnamed |
Unknowns | 101 |
Burials by nation | |
Allied Powers:
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Burials by war | |
World War I: 11,954 | |
1914 – Here are recorded the names of officers and men of the armies of the British Empire who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death – 1918[1] | |
Official name | Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | i, ii, vi |
Designated | 2023 (45th session) |
Reference no. | 1567-FL08 |
Statistics source: CWGC |
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