Mud Corner Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Mud Corner Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located near Ypres, on the Western Front.

Mud Corner
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased June–December 1917
Established1917
Location50°44′32″N 02°53′53″E
near 
Ploegsteert, Belgium
Designed byG H Goldsmith
Total burials85
Unknowns
2
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: WW1Cemeteries.com and 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.[1]

Foundation
Mud Corner cemetery showing the war cross. The site is too small to have a war stone.

The cemetery, near Ploegsteert ("Plug Street" to the common soldier of the time), is one of the smaller of the 23000 cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,[2] with just 85 graves.[3] They date from the outbreak of the Battle of Messines.[4]

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References
  1. First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
  2. Summers, Julie (2007). Remembered. London: Merrell. ISBN 1-85894-374-4.
  3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, accessed 13 October 2007
  4. firstworldwar.com, accessed 13 October 2007
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