Suffolk Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Suffolk Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in Kemmel in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.

Suffolk
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1915–1918
Established1915
Location50°48′13″N 02°50′39″E
near 
Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed byJ R Truelove
Total burials47
Unknowns
8
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: WW1Cemeteries.com and CWGC

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.[1]

Foundation

The cemetery was founded by Commonwealth troops in March and April 1915. It was then disused, except for one 1917 burial, until October 1918.[2]

The cemetery was founded under the name "Cheapside Cemetery" by the Suffolk Regiment. The October 1918 burials were of soldiers from the York and Lancaster Regiment who had been killed the previous April.[3]

The cemetery was designed by J R Truelove[2] who also worked on the Tyne Cot memorial to the missing.[4]

References
  1. First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
  2. Commonwealth War Graves Commission accessed 28 December 2007
  3. WW1Cemeteries.com, accessed 28 December 2007
  4. Fry, Michèle Counter-Attack Archived 2008-01-21 at the Wayback Machine "First World War Memorials & Cemeteries as Symbolic Landscapes in France and Belgium", 2000, accessed 28 December 2007
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