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Berks Cemetery Extension

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Berks Cemetery Extension
Berks Cemetery Extension. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Berks Cemetery Extension is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground in Belgium for the dead of the First World War, located in the village of Ploegsteert in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.

Inside the cemetery is the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing, which commemorates more than 11,000 British and Empire servicemen who died in the area during the First World War and have no known grave. Berks Cemetery Extension is not to be confused with the much smaller Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, which is located directly opposite, across the road.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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