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Messines Ridge British Cemetery CWGC (Mesen (municipality))

Belgium / West-Flandern / Mesen / Mesen (municipality)
 memorial, cemetery, First World War 1914-1918

The Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial to the Missing is situated within Messines Ridge British Cemetery.1,531 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 954 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate a number of casualties known or believed to be buried among them, or who were buried in other cemeteries where their graves were destroyed by shell fire.

www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=1663...
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Coordinates:   50°45'52"N   2°53'27"E
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