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Hyde
Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery; Berkshire Cemetery
Extension and Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing
Taken
from Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, looking across
the main road to the Extension and memorial. 83 British soldiers
lie in the original cemetery, and another 394 in the extension.
11,447 missing of the 1914 battles of Armentieres and Aubers,
and the German advance here in 1918, are commemorated in
this magnificent memorial. Plug Street Wood, familiar to
thousands of men of the BEF, lies behind the camera. |
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In
the wood are Rifle House, Toronto Avenue and Ploegsteert
Wood Cemeteries, containing in all the graves of 473 British
soldiers. Although it was a notoriously quiet spot, many died
here from isolated shelling and, especially in the early years,
intensive sniping activity. The wood contains several concrete
shelters and other traces of trench excavations. |
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On
the Northern edge of the wood are Prowse Point and Mud
Corner cemeteries, together containing another 300 graves.
The camera is in Prose Point, looking down at Mud Corner;
the name is obvious this busy track towards the front lies
in a shallow depression where water readily collects, to
this day. |
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Lancashire
Cottage Cemetery
South
of the wood, 254 men lie in this battlefield cemetery. |
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