Pictures from the Ypres Salient 2002.  Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery, Passchendaele.  

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Listed on the back wall of the cemetery are the names of 35,000 soldiers with no known grave and died after August 1917.  This is a continuation of the names featured on the Menin Gate.

350 of the graves located behind the cross are from during the war and the rest positioned afterwards.

In total 11,871 graves are registered here.  Around 70% of these are unidentified.

Of these graves 8901 are UK, 1353 Australian, 2 West Indies, 966 Canadian, 6 from Guernsey, 14 Newfoundland, 519 New Zealanders and 4 German.

This cross of sacrifice is in fact built over the site of a German block-house.  You can see a small portion of the original building framed by the laurel wreath in the center.

This is the largest British war cemetery in the world.    The Northumberland Fusiliers regarded the German pill boxes around the area as similar to Tyneside cottages, hence the nick-name.

The remains of two German block-houses can be seen in the cemetery.  This is the one on the right as you enter.