Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery

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Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery
Cemetery Duhallow A.D.S..jpg
Country: Belgium
Location: West-Vlaanderen
Coordinates: 50°51′50.2″N 2°52′37.5″E / 50.863944, 2.877083
Type: Public
Owned by: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Number of gravesites: 1314
Website: Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery

The Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery (Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station) is located north of Ieper (Ypres) Belgium. It contains burials from the Great War including 38 Canadians.

History

Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, believed to have been named after a southern Irish hunt, was a medical post 1.6 kilometres north of Ypres (now Ieper). The cemetery was begun in July 1917 and in October and November 1918, it was used by the 11th, 36th and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations.

The cemetery contains many graves of the artillery and engineers and 41 men of the 13th Company Labour Corps, killed when a German aircraft dropped a bomb on an ammunition truck in January 1918, are buried in Plot II.

After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged when graves were brought into this cemetery from isolated sites and a number of small cemeteries on the battlefields around Ypres. Special memorials commemorate a number of casualties known to have been buried in two of these cemeteries, Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen, and Fusilier Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke, whose graves were destroyed by shellfire.

There are now 1,544 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery, 231 of the burials unidentified. There are also 57 war graves of other nationalities, mostly German, and one Commonwealth burial of the Second World War, which dates from the Allied withdrawal ahead of the German advance of May 1940.

Location

The Cemetery is located on the Diksmuidseweg, N369 road, in the direction of Boezinge.

From Ieper station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, where you should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second turning on the left which is the Diksmuidseweg. The cemetery is on the right hand side of the road just past the first turning on the right.

"We Rest Here"

The following members related to Signals are buried here.

Headstone Service Number Rank and Name Grave Location
Coutts, Norman Hunter grave marker.jpg
5648 Sapper NH Coutts VII. A. 18.
Grieve, George Rewcastle grave marker.jpg
5669 Sapper GR Grieve VII. A. 17.

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