Bethleem Farm West Cemetery, Belgium

Cemetery Details

Location Ieper (Ypres), Provincie West-Vlaanderen (West Flanders) - Flanders, Belgium
Co‑ordinates N50.75857, E2.90662
Description

Bethleem Farm West Cemetery was made by units of the 3rd Australian Division (it was known to them as the '3rd Division General Cemetery'), who captured Bethleem Farm (which can be found to the north-east) on 7 June 1917 during the Battle of Messines. It continued to be used by the 14th (Light) Division until the end of 1917. There is also an East Cemetery located nearby.

There are now 165 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery including one casualty commemorated by special memorial whose grave in the cemetery was destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery also contains one unidentifed burial of the Second World War.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

ROBINSON, Henry James

Service number 747
Private
30th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1885

NIELSEN, Charles William

Service number 4369
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 17 Sep 1892

CHADWICK, Frederick George

Service number 289
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

OGDEN, Geoffrey Molyneux

Service number 1260
Private
38th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1896

MCCOSKER, Bernard Hector

Service number 2878
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1893

CLUETT, Charles Major

Service number 381
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1879

ECKERT, Martin

Service number 1112
Private
33rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 Jan 1882

WILLMER, James Harold

Service number 4620
Private
31st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

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