| Ploegsteert Memorial | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
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| For soldiers missing in the area during World War I | |
| Unveiled | 7 June 1931 |
| Location | 50°44′17″N 02°52′55″E / 50.73806°N 2.88194°E near |
| Designed by | H. Chalton Bradshaw Gilbert Ledward (sculptor) |
To the glory of God and to the memory of 11447 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire, who fell fighting in the years 1914–1918 between the River Douve and the towns of Estaires and Furnes, whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.[citation needed] | |
| Official name | Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, vi |
| Designated | 2023 (45th session) |
| Reference no. | 1567-WA10 |
The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial in Belgium for missing soldiers of World War I. It commemorates men from the Allied Powers who fought on the northern Western Front outside the Ypres Salient and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located in the village of Ploegsteert and stands in the middle of Berks Cemetery Extension.