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Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and Berks Cemetery Extension

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Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and Berks Cemetery Extension

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Location: Comines-Warneton, Mouscron, Hauts-De-France, France

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

October 1, 2022

The "Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing" is also located at this location.

The Ploegsteert (often referred to as 'Plug Street' in English) Memorial to the Missing takes center stage on the Bercks Cemetery Extension. The memorial, with a diameter of 21 meters and a height of 11.73 meters) was unveiled on June 7, 1931.

The Memorial contains a list of 11,447 missing Commonwealth soldiers from the following battles in the wider area: Armentières, Aubes Ridge, Loos, Fromelles, Estaires, Hazebrouck (part of the Battle of the Lys), Scherpenheuvel (also part of the Battle of the Lys) and Outtersteene Ridge.

The text on the memorial: 'To God's glory and the memory of 11,447 officers and men of the armed forces of the British Empire, who fell in battle during the years 1914 - 1918 between the river Douve and the towns of Estaires and Veurne, whose names are listed here but who, unlike their dead comrades, were denied a known grave and an honorable burial due to war circumstances.'

The memorial also features the names of three Victoria Croos laureates: Sapper William Hackett, Private James MacKenzie and Captain Thomas Tannat Pryce.

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

October 1, 2022

Bercks Cemetery Extension was established by Commonwealth troops in June 1916 as an extension of Hyde Park Corner (Royal Bercks) Cemetery, which is just across the road. The cemetery was still small (only one lot) at the time of the armistice. In 1930, it was expanded with lots II and III, when it became clear that Rosenberg Chateau Military Cemetery and Extension could not last forever. For example, the graves were transferred to Bercks Cemetery Extension.

The impressive Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is located at this location.

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Don't forget to visit Plugstreet 14-18 Experience.

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Chantal

September 6, 2023

2 cemeteries, the memorial, the museum... definitely worth a visit.

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Location: Comines-Warneton, Mouscron, Hauts-De-France, France

Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and Berks Cemetery Extension

1. Mud Corner Cemetery – Bois de la Hutte loop from Ploegsteert

2. Bois de la Hutte – Mud Corner Cemetery loop from Mesen - Messines

3. Mud Corner Cemetery – The Royal Memorial loop from Ploegsteert

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