Toronto Avenue Cemetery, Ploegsteert Wood Belgium

Cemetery Details

Location Ploegsteert, Hainaut - Wallonia, Belgium
Co‑ordinates N50.74065, E2.89989
Description

Toronto Avenue, named for the city in Canada, is in a quiet secluded spot in a forest and marks a major Trench of the same name.  Paradoxically, it is the only all-Australian cemetery in Belgium.  It contains the graves of soldiers of the 9th Brigade drawn largely from New South Wales killed in fighting at Messines.  There are 78 burials of which two are unidentified.  There is one South Australian, PTE H.P. McAuliffe of Port Augusta.

 

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Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

WILSON, Frank Owen Turner

Service number 2420
Private
3rd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

JONES, Arthur

Service number 1295
Private
36th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Aug 1896

HANKS, John Thomas

Service number 445
Private
36th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

MCNAMARA, Harold Allen

Service number 2357
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HOSWELL, William Young

Service number 5035
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Apr 1897

ANTCLIFF, James Hartley

Service number 2029
Private
36th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Apr 1893

LUFF, John Stannan

Service number 1865
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 Sep 1987

CAWKWELL, George Albert

Service number 728
Lance Sergeant
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Jan 1894

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