Ramparts (Lille Gate) Cemetery

Ramparts Cemetery (Lille gate)
Ramparts Cemetery (Lille gate)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
	Used for those deceased 1914–1918
Established	1914
Location	50°50′41″N02°53′21″E / 50.84472°N 2.88917°E ; near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by	Sir Reginald Blomfield
Total burials	198
Unknowns	5
Burials by nation
	Allied Powers: United Kingdom: 153; Canada: 10; Australia: 11; New Zealand: 14;
Burials by war
	World War I: 198
	Statistics source: www.wo1.be

Last updated March 05, 2023

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

Foundation

This small cemetery is the only CWGC burial ground within the ancient walls of Ypres. The cemetery was begun in November 1914 by French troops defending the city and was used by Commonwealth troops from February 1915 until April 1918, by which time the Western Front had moved away from Ypres.

At the end of the war, the French graves were removed and concentrated in the nearby Ypres Necropole National French cemetery. Of the British and Commonwealth troops buried here, all but ten are named; in the case of five of the unidentified, the nationality could not be ascertained.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield who was also responsible for the nearby Menin Gate memorial.^[1]

Notable graves

The cemetery contains the graves of 198 soldiers. Amongst these are the graves of six New Zealand troops killed simultaneously by the same shell.^[2] These graves are symbolically grouped together.

Rose Coombs, who did much to popularise Ypres and the Salient for tourists and pilgrims through her book "Before Endeavours Fade" ( ISBN 0-900913-85-1), had her ashes scattered in this cemetery in 1991.^[3]

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References

↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission, accessed 22 May 2006
↑ Digger Tours Archived 2006-07-10 at the Wayback Machine , accessed 22 May 2006
↑ Holt T and V, Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient Barnsley:2003 Leo Cooper Pen and Sword ISBN 0-85052-551-9

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[1] Commonwealth War Graves Commission, accessed 22 May 2006

[2] Digger Tours Archived 2006-07-10 at the Wayback Machine , accessed 22 May 2006

[3] Holt T and V, Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient Barnsley:2003 Leo Cooper Pen and Sword ISBN 0-85052-551-9

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