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

Sited next to the 16th (Irish) Division Memorial in Wytschaete (or 'White Sheet' as it was commonly referred to during wartime), Wytschaete cemetery contains 486 U.K., 31 Australian, 19 Canadian, 11 South African, 7 New Zealand, 1 German and 673 unknown burials.  The cemetery also contains some 25 special memorials.  It was established after the war by concentrating graves from other sites in the vicinity.

 

Film Footage of Wytschaete Cemetery
1,099kb, 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.

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