Hedge Row Trench Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Hedge Row Trench Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located near The Bluff south of Ypres (now Ieper) in Belgium on the Western Front.

Hedge Row Trench
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1915–1917
EstablishedMarch 1915
Location50°49′11″N 02°54′49″E
near 
Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed byJ R Truelove
Total burials98
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: WO1.be

Foundation
The cemetery grounds

The cemetery, also known as Ravine Wood Cemetery, was founded in March 1915 and closed in August 1917.[1] Being directly on the front line, the cemetery was repeatedly shelled and the original locations of the graves could not be established.[2] The majority[3] of the stones are therefore arrayed in a circle around the Cross of Sacrifice and are marked "known to be buried in this cemetery",[4] with the default additional phrase "Their glory shall not be blotted out", a line suggested by Rudyard Kipling.[5][6]

The cemetery was designed by J R Truelove.[1] The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war.[7]

Other cemeteries on "The Bluff"

References
  1. "CWGC :: Cemetery Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  2. "Wereldoorlog in de Westhook – Hedge Row Trench". www.wo1.be. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  3. The main sources imply that all of the gravestones are in a circle around the Cross of Sacrifice. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission plan Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine of the cemetery, as confirmed by the sources' own photographs, shows that there are also a non-symmetrical number of gravestones against each of the four walls.
  4. "Hedge Row Trench Cemetery". ww1cemeteries.com. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  5. Moore, Steve and Barbara. "Ypres Salient September 2004". www.ypressalient.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
  6. Honigsbaum, Mark (November 2007). "Pro patria mori?". commentisfree.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
  7. First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
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