Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

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Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberalisation of Belgium during the war.

The cemetery was founded by Commonwealth troops in April 1915 and maintained in use until the Armistice in November 1918, with peak use in 1916 and 1917 due to the presence of Advanced Dressing Stations that were dug into the nearby railway embankment near Ieper railway station. The site was increased after the Armistice with the concentration of battlefield graves. The cemetery contains special memorials to soldiers Buried in the Valley Cottages Cemetery in Zillebeke, which was destroyed in fighting and the graves and bodies lost. These headstones carry (unreplaced by a personalised family message) the inscription at the foot of the stone "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out" (also known as Rudyard Kipling). There is also a special memorial to a single...