[visited 20 September 2016]
Like so many of the over 400 UK Commonwealth cemeteries along the Somme this one was opened right on the battlefield itself. In fact, you can see the remains of a bunker at the very center of the cemetery beneath the flagpole.
It is also one of four Commonwealth memorials to the missing in Belgium: 11,961 known burials and another 8,373 graves are listed as unknowns; another 35,000 names of soldiers whose graves are unknown are inscribed on the wall that sweeps around the cemetery.
Tyne Cot Cemetery. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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| the Australian memorial |
Inside this structure is the blockhouse captured by the Australian 3rd Division 4 October 1917.
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