Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Hooge Crater
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Entrance stone for Hooge Crater cemetery
Used for those deceased 1917–1918
EstablishedOctober 1917
Location50°50′47″N 2°56′36″E / 50.84639°N 2.94333°E / 50.84639; 2.94333[1]
near 
Designed bySir Edwin Lutyens
Total burials5924
Unknowns
3578
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: Battlefields1418.50megs.com

Hooge Crater Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on the Western Front. Hooge Crater Cemetery is named after a mine crater blown nearby in 1915 (since filled in, see below) and located near the centre of Hooge, opposite the "Hooge Crater Museum" (founded in 1994)[2] and separated from it by the Menin Road. Hooge itself is a small village on the Bellewaerde Ridge, about 4 kilometres east of Ypres in the Flemish province of West Flanders.

  1. ^ "Shaw Communications". www.members.shaw.ca. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  2. ^ "First World War.com - The Western Front Today - Hooge Museum". www.firstworldwar.com. Retrieved 26 November 2018.