Chester Farm Cemetery

Chester Farm
Chester Farm
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
	Used for those deceased 1915–1917
Established	March 1915
Location	50°49′18″N2°54′04″E / 50.82167°N 2.90111°E ; near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by	Sir Edwin Lutyens
Total burials	424
Unknowns	9
Burials by nation
	Allied Powers: United Kingdom: 311; Canada: 88; Australia: 21; Central Powers: Germany: 4;
Burials by war
	World War I: 424
	Statistics source: wo1.be and firstworldwar.com

Last updated February 20, 2023

Chester Farm is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.

Foundation

Commonwealth troops began using the site as a cemetery in March 1915.^[2] The cemetery is named after a nearby farm,^[3] which was itself probably named by the 2nd Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment in 1915.^[4]

The dead are mostly grouped by battalion.^[5]

There are cenotaphs for six soldiers (five British and one Canadian) who are known or believed to be buried in the cemetery but whose actual plot was lost or destroyed.^[5] These stones usually have the Rudyard Kipling-derived footnote "Their glory shall not be blotted out".

Notable graves

The painter Ernest Stafford Carlos is buried here.^[6]^[7]

Gallery

Gravestones at the rear of the cemetery, showing planting done by the CWGC.
Overview from the entrance of the cemetery

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References

↑ wo1.be Archived November 11, 2005, at the Wayback Machine , undated, accessed 17 February 2006
↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry, undated, accessed 17 February 2007
↑ Duffy, Michael firstworldwar.com, 1 September 2002, accessed 17 February 2007
↑ Reed, Paul (1999). Walking the Salient. Leo Cooper. ISBN 978-0850526172. (Chapter 5)
1 2 wo1.be Archived November 11, 2005, at the Wayback Machine , undated, accessed 17 February 2007
↑ wo1.be Archived February 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , undated, accessed 17 February 2006
↑ CWGC record

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[wo1-1] wo1.be Archived November 11, 2005, at the Wayback Machine , undated, accessed 17 February 2006

[cwgc-2] Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry, undated, accessed 17 February 2007

[fww-3] Duffy, Michael firstworldwar.com, 1 September 2002, accessed 17 February 2007

[4] Reed, Paul (1999). Walking the Salient. Leo Cooper. ISBN 978-0850526172. (Chapter 5)

[wo1main-5] 1 2 wo1.be Archived November 11, 2005, at the Wayback Machine , undated, accessed 17 February 2007

[wo1db-6] wo1.be Archived February 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , undated, accessed 17 February 2006

[7] CWGC record

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