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The Western Front Today - Sanctuary Wood Cemetery
Updated - Sunday, 8 September, 2002

Sanctuary Wood cemetery is located nearby the famous Sanctuary Wood museum and Canadian Hill 62 memorial.

The cemetery originally contained 137 graves at the point of the armistice of November 1918. Greatly expanded in the post-war years (most notably between 1927-32) from grave sites around Ypres the cemetery now contains in excess of 2,000 burials many of which are unknown.

	Film Footage of Sanctuary Wood Cemetery
	1,298kb, 29 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.