Elzenwalle Brasserie Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Infobox Military Cemetery
name= Elzenwalle Brasserie, Voormezele
body= Commonwealth War Graves Commission


use_dates= 1915-1918
established= February 1915
designer= G H Goldsmith
coordinates= coord|50|48|39.7|N|02|51|32.6|E|
nearest_town= Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
total= 144
unknowns= 5
by_country=Allied Powers:
*United Kingdom: 108
*Canada: 41
by_war=
World War I: 149
source= [http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/elzenwallebrasseriecemetery.htm WW1Cemeteries.com]

Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I 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. [ [http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_friedhof_vladslo.htm First World War] , accessed 19 August 2006]

Foundation

The cemetery takes its name from the brewery opposite. [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=52503&mode=1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission] , accessed 27 September 2007] Founded in February 1915, it was formed from eight regimental burial grounds. There are between one and fourteen graves in each of these plots. [http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/elzenwallebrasseriecemetery.htm WW1Cemeteries.com] , accessed 27 September 2007]

This cemetery is a prime example of regimental burial grounds created by the units defending the trenches in the area between 1915 and 1917. The graves are of individual soldiers killed holding the line of the trenches during the long stalemate of the front and the new forward line after the Battle of Messines. [http://www.wo1.be/eng/database/dbDetail.asp?TypeID=6&SubTypeID=19&ItemID=5660 Wereldoorlog I in de Westhoek] , accessed 27 September 2007]

The cemetery was designed by G H Goldsmith.

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