Ypres Town Cemetery and Extension

Ypres Town
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1914–1915, 1918 and 1940
Established	1914
Location	50°51′12″N 02°53′54″E / 50.85333°N 2.89833°E / 50.85333; 2.89833 near  Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by	Sir Reginald Blomfield
Total burials	145 (cemetery), 643 (extension)
Unknowns	150
Burials by nation
Allies of World War I: United Kingdom: 144 (cemetery), 568 (extension) Canada: 15 (extension) Australia: 13 (extension) South Africa: 1 (extension) Undivided India: 1 (cemetery), 1 (cemetery) Allies of World War II: United Kingdom: 42 (extension) Canada: 1 (extension) Czechoslovakia: 1 (extension) Other: 1 (extension)
Burials by war
World War I: 145 (cemetery), 598 (extension) World War II: 45 (extension)
Statistics source: [1] and [2] at wo1.be

Ypres Town Cemetery and Extension is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in Ypres, Belgium, on the Western Front.

The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war.^[1]