5760 x 3840 px | 48,8 x 32,5 cm | 19,2 x 12,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2 juin 2014
Lieu:
Chemin du Mont de la Hutte 4-18 7784 Comines-Warneton, Belgium
Informations supplémentaires:
Prowse Point Military Cemetery is unique on the Ypres Salient for being named after an individual. It is the site of the stand by the 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment and the 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry in October 1914, which featured the heroism of a Major Charles Prowse - later as Brigadier-General C.B. Prowse, DSO (Somerset Light Infantry), he would be killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, whilst commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade (he is buried in Louvencourt Military Cemetery). The cemetery was begun by the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was used from November 1914 to April 1918. It contains 225 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and was designed by W H Cowlishaw. Mud Corner Cemetery is located in the wood at Ploegsteert and access is only possible via a track in the woods to which motor vehicles are not allowed. Mud Corner was the name given to a road junction on the northern edge of Ploegsteert Wood, very close to the front. The cemetery was used from 7 June 1917, when the New Zealand Division captured Messines, to December 1917. All of the burials, save one, are of New Zealand or Australian forces. The cemetery contains 85 First World War burials and was designed by G H Goldsmith.
