Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Hooge Crater Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on the Western Front. Hooge Crater Cemetery is named after a mine crater blown nearby in 1915 (since filled in, see below) and located near the centre of Hooge, opposite the "Hooge Crater Museum" (founded in 1994) and separated from it by the Menin Road. Hooge itself is a small village on the Bellewaerde Ridge, about 4 kilometres east of Ypres in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
| Hooge Crater | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
| Used for those deceased 1917–1918 | |
| Established | October 1917 |
| Location | 50°50′47″N 2°56′36″E near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium |
| Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
| Total burials | 5924 |
Unknowns | 3578 |
| Burials by nation | |
Allied Powers:
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| Burials by war | |
World War I: 5924 | |
| Statistics source: Battlefields1418.50megs.com | |
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