Tyne Cot Cemetery1

Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth burial ground on the continent and also the most important witness to the bloody Battle of Passchendaele. Originally, Tyne Cot was a fortified position of the German Flanders I Line, where Australian troops set up a first aid post in October 1917. Approximately 12,000 soldiers are buried here. The impressive Tyne Cot Memorial lists another 35,000 names of soldiers with no known grave, who fell after August 15, 1917.

On July 12, 2007, a completely new visitor infrastructure was inaugurated, with the visitor center as the centerpiece. Here you have a unique view over the old battlefields and can hear and see the poignant story of Tyne Cot Cemetery and the dead of Passchendaele.

Additional information:
- Group tour
- Accessible for the disabled

Contact details:
- Tyne Cot Cemetery
- Tynecotstraat 22, 8980 Passendale
- Tel: +32 51 77 04 41
- E-Mail: toerisme@zonnebeke.be
- Web: www.wo1.be

- Open daily from sunrise to sunset.
The visitor center is open daily from February 1 to November 30, from 10 AM to 6 PM.
Free entry.

Frans Verwimp