Commonwealth War Cemetery New Irish Farm

This cemetery is named after a farm close by and which was known as Irish Farm and was used for burials from August 1917 until November 1917, after which it was used once again for 2 months from April 1918.
After the war more burials were done here also coming from the following smaller cemeteries in the area:
• ADMIRAL's CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: 19 soldiers were brought in from this cemetery who died in 1917 and 1918. It was named after a sailor that was attached to 6th Division.
• COMEDY FARM CEMETERY, LANGEMARK: 29 British soldiers who died during third of Ypres.
• CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, ST. JAN: 19 British soldiers that were buried in 2 field graves next to the crossing in St Jan.
• FERDINAND FARM CEMETERY, LANGEMARK: 15 soldiers from the UK who died between August and October 1917.
• FRANCOIS FARM CEMETERY, LANGEMARK: 23 British soldiers that fell between July and October 1917.
• FUSILIER FARM CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: 17 Soldiers from the 38th (Welsh) Division who fell on the opening day of the 3rd Battle of Ypres.
• FUSILIER FARM ROAD CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: 14 Soldiers from the 38th (Welsh) Division who fell between 31st of July and 2nd of August 1917.
• GLIMPSE COTTAGE CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: 18 men from the 38th (Welsh) Division who fell between July and August 1917.
• LA MITERIE GERMAN CEMETERY, LOMME: containing the graves of eight soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell early in September 1918.
• MIRFIELD CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: named after the Mirfield Trench and it contains the graves of 16 British soldiers (all but one of the 51st (Highland) Division) who fell in June-August 1917.
• PARATONNIERS FARM CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: originally a Belgian Military Cemetery, which also contained the graves of 13 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in December 1917 to March 1918.
• PILCKEM ROAD CEMETERY, BOEZINGE: It contained the graves of 27 soldiers from the United Kingdom, (18 of the 1st/5th Gordons) from July-August 1917.
• ST. JEAN CHURCHYARD: containing the graves of 44 British soldiers who fell in May-December 1915.
• SPREE FARM CEMETERY, LANGEMARK: containing the graves of 17 soldiers from the Commonwealth who fell in August and October 1917.
• VANHEULE FARM CEMETERY, LANGEMARK: which contained the graves of 22 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from New Zealand died between August and October 1917.
• YORKSHIRE CEMETERY, ZOUAVE VILLA: containing the graves of 24 British soldiers (22 men of the 6th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and two of the 6th East Yorks).

Interesting fact is that the original burials from 1917 are on a raised area close to the Stone of Remembrance.

Furthermore, there is a Duhallow block to commemorate the fallen soldiers of La-Miterie German Cemetery, Francois Farm Cemetery, Vanheule Farm Cemetery and Spree Farm Cemetery which all were destroyed in the fighting during the war and were the remains of the soldiers that were buried there were not found back.

New Irish Farm Cemetery in Ypres contains 4715 Commonwealth war graves from World War I. Of these, 3267 are unidentified.

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Source

• Text: Gio Theunissen
• Photos: Luc van Waeyenberge