New Irish Farm Cemetery
New Irish Farm Cemetery is located to the north-east of Ypres.
The Cemetery was first used from August to November 1917, and again in April and May 1918. At the Armistice it contained just 73 burials - the three irregular rows of Plot I - but was then greatly enlarged when more than 4,500 graves were brought in from the battlefields north-east of Ypres and from numerous smaller cemeteries in the area. There are now 4,715 commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
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7762 PRIVATE / W.H. WILSON / EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT / 14TH
MAY 1915. AGE 32 / HE DID HIS DUTY (Grave Ref. VIII. J. 10.) William Henry Wilson - "son of Carpenter and Martha Wilson, of 35, Angle St., Burnley." Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register |
