Mud Corner Cemetery

Mud Corner
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Mud Corner Cemetery
Used for those deceased June–December 1917
Established1917
Location50°44′32″N 02°53′53″E / 50.74222°N 2.89806°E / 50.74222; 2.89806
near 
Ploegsteert, Belgium
Designed byG H Goldsmith
Total burials85
Unknowns
2
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Official nameFunerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
TypeCultural
Criteriai, ii, vi
Designated2023 (45th session)
Reference no.1567-WA13
Statistics source: WW1Cemeteries.com and CWGC

Mud Corner Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located near Ypres, 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 liberation of Belgium during the war.[1]

Foundation

Mud Corner cemetery showing the war cross. The site is too small to have a war stone.

The cemetery, near Ploegsteert ("Plug Street" to the common soldier of the time), is one of the smaller of the 23000 cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,[2] with just 85 graves.[3] They date from the outbreak of the Battle of Messines.[4]

References

  1. ^ First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
  2. ^ Summers, Julie (2007). Remembered. London: Merrell. ISBN 1-85894-374-4.
  3. ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission, accessed 13 October 2007
  4. ^ firstworldwar.com, accessed 13 October 2007
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