First World War.com - The Western Front Today - Berkshire Cemetery Extension

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The Western Front Today - Berkshire Cemetery Extension
Updated - Sunday, 12 January, 2003

Located next to Ploegsteert Wood - and attached to both the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and Hyde Park Corner cemetery - Berkshire Cemetery Extension contains 295 U.K., 51 Australian, 45 New Zealand and 3 Canadian burials. To the right of the Ploegsteert Memorial (from the road) is Berkshire Cemetery and to its left Berkshire Cemetery Extension.

	Film Footage of Berkshire Extension (1)
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	Film Footage of Berkshire Extension (2)
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	Film Footage of Berkshire Extension (3)
	1,129kb, 25 seconds, Windows Media .WMV format

References:
Before Endeavours Fade, Rose E.B. Coombs, After the Battle 1994
Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Ypres Salient, Leo Cooper 2000

A "listening post" was an advanced post, usually in no-man's land, where soldiers tried to find out information about the enemy.