New Cemetery, Frezenberg

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Aeroplane Cemetery is a British military cemetery located in the Belgian city of Ypres. The cemetery is located more than three kilometres northeast of the city centre, along the Zonnebeekseweg to Zonnebeke, a few hundred meters past the French military cemetery Saint-Charles de Potyze and before the hamlet of Verlorenhoek. It was designed by Reginald Blomfield and has a rectangular ground plan with an area of 4,159 m2. At the centre is the Cross of Sacrifice and on the east is the Stone of Remembrance. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. There are 1,105 deaths commemorated, 636 of which were unidentified.

History: During the war, the city of Ypres was central to the Ypres, the front of the city where the British and Germans were facing each other for years. Ypres himself remained in allied hands during the war. The area of the present cemetery was in no man's land until the end of July 1917 when the hamlets Verlorenhoek and Frezenberg were reclaimed at the Third Battle of Ypres. The next month, construction of the cemetery was started, initially...