The name of this cemetery, "Nine Elms British Cemetery," comes from the Flemish word elm. An elm is a lep (tree).

A small wood of elms lay in the vicinity of this cemetery. Throughout the war, this location was in no man's land.

The cemetery was established and used by the 3rd Australian and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations when they were transferred from Brandhoek and Lijssenthoek, respectively, to Poperinge in September 1917. Almost all the graves in plots I through IX originate from this Casualty Clearing Station, when it operated in this area during the Battle of Ypres, until December 1917. The other plots, X through XV, date from the period of the German Spring Offensive—early March 1918 to October 12. This cemetery also contains the graves of 37 German soldiers from World War I and 22 WWII graves dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in 1940.

We Will Remember Them

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Riese

September 20, 2020

1,593 dead, the German border in the northeast corner of the cemetery contains the graves of 37 prisoners of war.

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Marcus K.

August 4, 2022

Huge cemetery of the fallen of the First World War

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