Bard Cottage Cemetery

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Bard Cottage Cemetery is a British military cemetery with World War I victims located in the Belgian village of Boezinge, part of Ypres. The cemetery was designed by Reginald Blomfield and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is located more than two kilometers south of the village center of Boezinge along the road from Ypres to Diksmuide (N369) near the Ieperlee Canal. The site has a nearly rectangular ground plan with an area of about 5.455 m2 and is enclosed by a concrete board stone. At the front is the Stone of Remembrance between two entrance buildings and at the back is the Cross of Sacrifice. There are 1,643 deaths commemorated from whom 40 could not be identified.

History: Boezinge was the largest part of the war in the Allies occupied area, just opposite the German lines on the other side of the Ypres channel between Ypres and the Iron. Between the present cemetery and the canal was a farm called "Bard Cottage," near a bridge called "Bard's Causeway." They built a cemetery that was used from June 1915 until October...