Suffolk Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Infobox Military Cemetery
name= Suffolk
body= Commonwealth War Graves Commission


use_dates= 1915-1918
established= 1915
designer= J R Truelove
coordinates= coord|50|48|12.5|N|02|50|39.4|E|
nearest_town= Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium
total= 47
unknowns= 8
by_country=Allied Powers:
*United Kingdom 47
by_war=
World War I: 47
source= [http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/suffolkcemetery.htm WW1Cemeteries.com] and [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=52501&mode=1 CWGC]

Suffolk Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I 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 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 was founded by Commonwealth troops in March and April 1915. It was then disused, except for one 1917 burial, until October 1918. [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=52501&mode=1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission] accessed 28 December 2007]

The cemetery was founded under the name "Cheapside Cemetery" by the Suffolk Regiment. The October 1918 burials were of soldiers from the York and Lancaster Regiment who had been killed the previous April. [http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/suffolkcemetery.htm WW1Cemeteries.com] , accessed 28 December 2007]

The cemetery was designed by J R Truelove who also worked on the Tyne Cot memorial to the missing.Fry, Michèle [http://www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk/symb-lscape3.htm Counter-Attack] "First World War Memorials & Cemeteries as Symbolic Landscapes in France and Belgium", 2000, accessed 28 December 2007]

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