Established April 1915 Address 8902 Ypres, Belgium | Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens Total burials 326 | |
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Woods Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located near The Bluff south of Ypres (now Ieper) in Belgium on the Western Front.
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The cemetery was made by the 1st Battalions of the Dorset and East Surrey Regiments in April 1915. It closed in September 1917. Many of the burials are from the London Regiment and the Canadian 2nd, 3rd and 10th Divisions. For much of the war, the front line ran just beyond the trees the cemetery is named for.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war.