Royal Engineers Memorial- Railway Wood.Zillebeke
Posted by: Norfolk12
N 50° 50.562 E 002° 57.468
31U E 497028 N 5632333
In a small clearing alongside the wood is this small Memorial to the Royal Engineers who died during the First World War.
Zillebeke is a village in the Flemish province of West-Vlaanderen in Belgium.
Waymark Code: WM3ZMH
Location: Belgium
Date Posted: 06/12/2008
Views: 42
The Royal Engineers Grave site marks the spot where eight Royal Engineers of the 177th Tunnelling Company and four attached infantrymen were killed in action underground during the defence of Ypres between November 1915 and August 1917.
The grave takes the form of a small enclosure with a Cross of Sacrifice bearing an inscription and the names of those buried.
There is a small grassed access path to this site which is unsuitable for vehicles. And muddy, the cemetery itself is located 500 metres along the Oude Kortrijkstraat on the right hand side of the road.
This is the smallest War Memorial site in Belgium.
Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 01/01/1920
Private or Public Monument?: Government
Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Local Authority
Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe
Physical Address of Monument: Railway Wood Zillebeke, West Vlaanderen Belguim
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