The Western Front Today - Bethlehem Farm West Cemetery
Updated - Sunday, 1 September, 2002

Bethlehem West cemetery is situated in Mesen in the Ypres Salient and is accompanied by the nearby Bethlehem East cemetery.  The cemetery is so-named after a nearby farm at which Adolf Hitler was billeted during the First World War from December 1914 until February 1915.

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

One in five of the Australians and New Zealanders who left their country to fight in the war never returned; 80,000 in total.

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