Birr Cross Roads Cemetery

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Birr Cross Roads Cemetery is a British military cemetery of the First World War, located in the Belgian village of Zillebeke. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The cemetery is located one and a half kilometres north of the village centre, along the road from Ypres to Menin (N8). The land is 2711 m². The entrance is flanked by two white columns. At the back, on the south side, is the Cross of Sacrifice, on the east side the Stone of Remembrance. It commemorates 834 dead, of which 336 could not be identified.

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Meenseweg, Ieper,Zillebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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