Messines Ridge British Cemetery CWGC (Mesen (municipality))
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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.
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Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°45'52"N 2°53'27"E
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- Hooge Crater Cemetery 10 km
- St. Julien Memorial 15 km
- Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing 16 km
- The IJzertower 30 km
- Lange Max Museum 40 km
- Dambuster's Memorial Park 135 km
- Moerdijk bridges 162 km
- Kamp Amersfoort (Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort 1941-1945) 229 km
- Military War Cemetery Grebbeberg 230 km
- New Zealand Memorial 0.5 km
- Island of Ireland Peace Park 0.6 km
- Spanbroekmolen Crater 2.4 km
- Peckham Farm Crater 2.5 km
- Petit Bois craters 3.2 km
- Battle of Messines WWI 3.2 km
- Heuvelland 3.8 km
- Chateau Military Cemetery 5 km
- Commandobunker of Kemmel 5.4 km
- Bailleul 11 km