Mud Corner Cemetery

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Mud Corner
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Mud Corner cemetery entrance stone 1005726629.jpg
Used for those deceased June–December 1917
Established1917
Location 50°44′32″N02°53′53″E / 50.74222°N 2.89806°E / 50.74222; 2.89806
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Designed byG H Goldsmith
Total burials85
Unknowns
2
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Official nameFunerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
TypeCultural
Criteriai, ii, vi
Designated 2023 (45th session)
Reference no. 1567-WA13
Statistics source: WW1Cemeteries.com and CWGC

Mud Corner Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located near Ypres, on the Western Front. 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]

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Mud Corner cemetery showing the war cross. The site is too small to have a war stone. Mud Corner cemetery and cross 1006581512.jpg
Mud Corner cemetery showing the war cross. The site is too small to have a war stone.

The cemetery, near Ploegsteert ("Plug Street" to the common soldier of the time), is one of the smaller of the 23000 cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, [2] with just 85 graves. [3] They date from the outbreak of the Battle of Messines. [4]

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References

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  2. Summers, Julie (2007). Remembered. London: Merrell. ISBN   1-85894-374-4.
  3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, accessed 13 October 2007
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