Godezonne Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Infobox Military Cemetery
name= Godezonne Farm
body= Commonwealth War Graves Commission


use_dates= 1915-1918
established= 1915
designer= W H Cowlishaw
coordinates= coord|50|48|1.3|N|02|50|27.6|E|
nearest_town= Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium
total= 79
unknowns= 44
by_country=Allied Powers:
*United Kingdom 74
*South Africa 3
*Australia 1
*Canada 1
by_war=
World War I: 79
source= [http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/godezonnefarmcemetery.htm WW1Cemeteries.com] and [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=52502&mode=1 CWGC]

Godezonne Farm 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 in February 1915 by the Royal Scots and Middlesex Regiments in the garden of the original Godezonne Farm. [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=52502&mode=1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission] accessed 28 December 2007]

It was used again in 1916 for three more burials and again after the Armistice to concentrate battlefield burials from the north and the east. [http://www.wo1.be/eng/database/dbDetail.asp?TypeID=6&SubTypeID=19&ItemID=5435 wo1.be] , accessed 28 December 2007]

The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw.

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