Buffs Road Cemetery CWGC

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Buffs Road was the name given to a small lane just to the north of the hamlet of Wieltje. The cemetery was made and used by fighting units (particularly the Royal Sussex and the Royal Artillery) between July 1917 and March 1918, and after the Armistice graves were brought into it (Row EE and part of Row B) from the battlefields. There are now 289 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 86 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to ten casualties whose graves in the cemetery were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by A J S Hutton.
The cemetery also contains the grave of a British Officer who was previously buried in Brielen Churchyard.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 265; Canada 10; Australia 13; South Africa 1; Total Burials: 289

Protected architectural heritage (ID: 201125)

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