| Memorial: | TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium |
| Grave Reference/ Panel Number: |
Panel 96 to 98 |
| Location: | The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms
the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9
kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road
leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The Memorial is a semicircular
flint wall 4.25 metres high and over 150 metres long, faced with panels
of Portland stone on which are carved nearly 35,000 names of those who
have no known grave. There are three apses and two rotundas. The central
apse forms the New Zealand Memorial commemorating the names of nearly
1200 men who gave their lives in the Battle of Broodseinde and the Third
Battle of Ypres in October 1917; the other two, as well as the rotundas
and the wall itself, carry the names of United Kingdom dead who fell in
the Salient between 15 August 1917 and the Armistice, in the Third and
Fourth Battles of Ypres. Two domed arched pavilions mark the ends of the
main wall, each dome being surmounted by a winged female figure with
head bowed over a wreath. The following inscription is carved on the
frieze above the panels which contain the names: 1914 - HERE ARE
RECORDED THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT, BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED
THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH - 1918 |
This page last updated 19th November 2001