Brandhoek New Military Cemetery , Vlamertinghe

Continuing west, the next village reached is Brandhoek. There are a number of war cemeteries here, and Brandhoek New Military Cemetery is reached by turing left off the main road (to the south) and then right. Field Ambulances were based in the village as it was relatively safe from German shelling. The cemetery was started in July 1917, when the 32nd, 34th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations arived in the area to prepare for the major offensive launched at the end of that month which would become known as Third Ypres. The cemetery was used only for a couple of months. It is located just off the road up a grass track, and is long and narrow in layout with four German graves just to the right of the entrance and more further in and at the far end of the cemetery. All of the graves face away from the entrance.

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