Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery

• Country Belgium
• Total identified casualties 146 Find these casualties
• Region West-Vlaanderen
• Identified casualties from First World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.81089, Longitude: 2.85973

Location information

Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery is located 5 km south west of Ieper town centre, on the Kemmelseweg, a road connecting Ieper to Kemmel (N331). From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort), and straight on towards Armentieres (N365). 900 m after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg. (Made prominent by a railway level crossing). The cemetery lies 4 Km along the Kemmelseweg on the right hand side of the road.

Visiting information

PARKING

There is no car park at the cemetery, there is a lay-by to the front where there is space available for vehicles to park. There is an additional parking space close to the alternative access point into the cemetery.

ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTERANCE

The main entrance to the cemetery is up two flights of six steps on either side of the Cross of Sacrifice. The cemetery is enclosed within a mid-level red brick wall. The Register Box is in the far-right corner of the cemetery.

ALTERNATIVE ACCESS

There is a single alternative access point, located towards the rear of the cemetery on the right-hand side of a single carriageway lane. The lane runs along the left-hand side of the cemetery. There is a ramp leading to a low metal gate that opens directly into the cemetery onto a flat, firm grass surface.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery is permanently open.

History information

This cemetery is named from a brewery which stood opposite and is in fact a collection of small regimental burial grounds, of which Plot III in particular was made by the 22nd Bn Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt). The eight plots are numbered neither in order of date nor in order of position, and the short rows vary from one grave to fourteen, but they record the names of the units which held the trenches on this front from February 1915 to June 1917, and of some of those which, from June to November 1917, held the forward line won in the Battle of Messines.

Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery contains 149 First World War burials.

The cemetery was designed by G H Goldsmith.