Artillery Wood Cemetery, near Boezinge, Belgium, is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery from the First World War.
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.First World War, accessed 19 August 2006
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Establishment The cemetery was established in 1917 after fighting in the immediate area – the Battle of Pilckem Ridge – had moved away and was used for burials until March 1918.
At the point of the Armistice there were some 141 graves in the cemetery. Concentration from the battlefields and three smaller cemeteries (Boesinghe Chateau Grounds, Brissein House and Captain's Farm) enlarged this to the present 1,307.
Burials by Unit The following list is compiled from the 801 identified casualties in Artillery Wood Cemetery with Imperial Units in bold: +Royal Field Artillery: 75Coldstream Guards: 70Grenadier Guards: 61Irish Guards: 57Royal Welch Fusiliers: 32Royal Garrison Artillery: 26Lancashire Fusiliers: 26Border Regiment: 22Scots Guards: 21South Wales Borderers: 20Seaforth Highlanders: 17Royal Engineers: 17Machine Gun Corps: 17Welch Regiment: 16Northumberland Fusiliers: 14Gordon Highlanders: 14King's Shropshire Light Infantry: 13King's Royal Rifle Corps: 13Worcestershire Regiment: 13Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment: 12Royal Scots: 12Middlesex Regiment: 11Newfoundland Regiment: 10King's Own Scottish Borderers: 10Sherwood Foresters: 10Machine Gun Guards: 10Royal Fusiliers: 9Monmouthshire Regiment: 9Welsh Guards: 8Black Watch: 8 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: 8Durham Light Infantry: 8Manchester Regiment: 7Cheshire Regiment: 7Royal Irish Fusiliers: 7Hampshire Regiment: 7Duke of Wellington's Regiment: 6Gloucestershire Regiment: 6Royal Horse Artillery: 6Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: 6London Regiment: 5Dorset Regiment: 5Canadian Infantry Corps: 5Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry: 5Royal Dublin Fusiliers: 5Rifle Brigade: 4East Surrey Regiment: 4Royal Sussex Regiment: 4Queen's Royal Regiment: 4Northamptonshire Regiment: 3Bedfordshire Regiment: 3King's Regiment: 2Devonshire Regiment: 2Royal Warwickshire Regiment: 2Tank Corps: 2Suffolk Regiment: 2York and Lancaster Regiment: 2Yorkshire Regiment: 2Essex Regiment: 2Highland Light Infantry: 2Suffolk Regiment: 2South Lancashire Regiment: 1Somerset Light Infantry: 1Royal Irish Rifles: 1King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry: 1King's Own Royal Regiment: 1Army Service Corps: 1Canadian Mounted Rifles: 1Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: 1Canadian Machine Gun Corps: 1Connaught Rangers: 1Hertfordshire Regiment: 1New Zealand Rifle Brigade: 1Norfolk Regiment: 1Royal Army Medical Corps: 1Royal Berkshire Regiment: 1Wiltshire Regiment: 1
Notable burials It is the location of the grave of Hedd Wyn (1887–1917), posthumous winner of the bardic chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, and of Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917), the Irish poet.BBC One; greatwar.co.uk
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