Bard Cottage Cemetery

Also by the main road, further south toward Ypres and again on the right is Bard Cottage Cemetery. This was named after a building nearby, whilst the farm that can still be seen at the end of the track next to the cemetery was known as Rivoli Farm during the war. An old photograph of the front of the cemetery can be compared with todays view below. There are twin entrance structures. The layout of the graves at the front of the cemetery is somewhat irregular, whilst those at the rear are more regular. However it is very largely an original wartime cemetery, started in June 1915 and used through until October 1918. After the Armistice 46 graves were brought into the cemetery from Marengo Farm Cemetery, which was a little to the south on the same side of the road. These graves were placed in Plot 4, Row C.

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