Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Canada Farm Cemetery
Belgium
Location
Region : Ypres (Ieper), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Latitude : 50.888337
Lontitude : 2.782189
CWGC Link : 50400
Canada Farm Cemetery is located 8.5 kilometres north-west of Ieper town centre, on the Elzendammestraat, a road leading from the Veurnseweg (N8) connecting Ieper to Elverdinge and on to Veurne. From Ieper town centre the Veurnseweg (N8) is reached via Elverdingsestraat, then turning right onto Haiglaan. Veurnseweg is a continuation of Haiglaan. On reaching the village of Elverdinge the Steentjesmolenstraat, N333, leads towards Poperinge. 2 kilometres along the Steentjesmolenstraat lies the right hand turning onto Elzendammestraat. The cemetery itself is located 1 kilometre along the Elzendammestraat on the right hand side of the road.

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Cookstown Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait Portrait Pte. Mitchell, Robert 29062 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 30/05/1918 Grave 4-A-4
Cemetery History
Canada Farm Cemetery took its name from a farmhouse used as a dressing station during the 1917 Allied offensive on this front.
Most of the burials are of men who died at the dressing station between June and October 1917.
There are now 907 First World War burials in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Cemetery Links
No Link Reference Doc
1 Findagrave.com Gravestone photos.
2 War Graves Photo Project War Graves Photographic Project
3 WWI Cemeteries Details of cemetery including some grave photos