Tyne Cot

Tyne Cot
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery on 5 August 2014.
Used for those deceased 1917–1918
EstablishedOctober 1917
Location50°53′13″N 02°59′53″E / 50.88694°N 2.99806°E / 50.88694; 2.99806
near 
Passendale, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed bySir Herbert Baker
Total burials11,965, of which 8,369 are unnamed
Unknowns
101
Burials by nation
Allied Powers:

Central Powers:

  • Germany: 4
Burials by war
World War I: 11,954
1914 – Here are recorded the names of officers and men of the armies of the British Empire who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death – 1918[1]
Official nameFunerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
TypeCultural
Criteriai, ii, vi
Designated2023 (45th session)
Reference no.1567-FL08
Statistics source: CWGC

Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside Passendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.

  1. ^ "Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Ypres Salient Battlefields, Belgium". Greatwar.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2011.