Artillery Wood Cemetery

Artillery Wood Cemetery, near Boezinge, Belgium, is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery from the First World War.

Artillery Wood
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1917–1918
Established1914
Location50.8996°N 2.8719°E / 50.8996; 2.8719
near 
Boezinge, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed bySir Reginald Blomfield
Total burials1307
Burials by war
World War I: 1307 (of which 801 are identified)
Statistics source: CWGC

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.

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