Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery

At walking junction 28, follow the road to junction 24. Departure from the network and take the Komenseweg to junction 69 (via junctions 24 and 23 you also reach junction 69, which amounts to an extra 1.3 km). Stop at CWGC Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery.

This cemetery was established in April 1915 and named after a nearby grove of larch, which is also the reason why larch trees were planted here. Larch Wood Cemetery has 1,177 graves of which 321 are unidentified. 82 soldiers are believed to have been buried here without having a known grave. They are commemorated in the cemetery on what is called a Special Memorial.

In 1916, three Canadians are buried here and are commemorated today at the Menin Gate. William Furzer , a 34-year-old laborer born in Somerset, England, died on June 3, 1916. John Shannon, a 28-year-old grocer born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Henry Bridge, a 34-year-old labourer from Liverpool, both serve with the 5th Battalion (Western Cavalry). They were killed on 21 and 22 July 1916, when their unit manned the front at Hill 60. Their graves are lost during the further violence of the war.

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