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Duhallow War Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium (ii)

Today is Armistice Day, which ended the hostilities of the Great War 106 years ago.

I posted some photos of Duhallow War Cemetery yesterday but today I’m concentrating on the Great War dead. Duhallow contains graves of men from several of the armies involved in that conflict.

The next two photos feature pillars which note the men commemorated there were originally buried in other cemeteries which were destroyed in later battles.

Crescent of Headstones; original burials in Fusilier Wood:-

Crescent of Headstones, Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres

Line of Headstones; transferred from Malakoff Farm Cemetery:-

Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres, Line of Headstones

I presumed these markers denoted the graves of brothers Privates W & A Barr, Seaforth Highlanders, 9/1/1918:-

Graves of Brothers, Duhallow War Cemetery, Ypres

I found two French graves.

Jules Viard and Jean Carret, both mort pour la France, 24/10/1918:-

A French Grave, Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres

Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres, French Grave 2

And a Belgian grave, of Antoine Vandegam, died 19/10/1918. The photo also shows the graves of Sapper, J Rooney, RE, October, 1918 aged 25 and Serjeant P Hackett, Leinster Regiment, 18/10/1918:-

A Belgian Grave, Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres

Star of David headstone for Private S Margolis, Labour Corps, 9/1/1918, aged 24, flanked by Private P Montague, Seaforth Highlanders, 9/1/1918 and Private W Middleton, Seaforth Highlanders, 9/1/1918:-

Star of David Headstone, Duhallow War Cemtery, Ypres

Two Germans; Curt Hoyer, Grenadier, 16/10/1918 and Johann Hobelsberger, Private, date of death obscured:-

A German Grave, Duhallow War Cemetery, Ypres

The front row below is for other German war dead:-

German Graves, Duhallow War Cemetery, Ypres

 

Duhallow War Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium (i)

For Remembrance Day.

Duhallow is one of the many War Cemeteries you come upon in and around Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium. It lies beside the Diksmuidseweg on theĀ  road designated N369 leading more or less north out of Ypres. In it there lie the remains of 1544 Commonwealth casualties plus 57 graves of other nationalities.

Cemetery from road:-

Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres, from Road

View from gates:-

Gates, Duhallow War Cemetery, Ypres+

Graves:-

Graves, Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres

Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres, Graves 2

One of the graves is of a Second World War soldier, Private D Morrell, Durham Light Infantry, who died on 29/5/1940, aged 21:-

WW2 Grave, Duhallow Cemetery, Ypres

 

 

 

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