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One of the saddest monument of the First World War Western Front and the largest Commonwealth War Cemetery in the world - with 11 954 burials (8 367 unidentified) and the Tyne Cot memorial to the missing - naming all those without a known grave who died at the Ypres Salient after August 15 1917 (those lost before that are commemorated at the Menin Gate in Ypres, but there were so many names that there were not room for them all). This cemetery was on a strategic important point in the war and saw its first burials (343 of them) already in 1917 and the great cross (as can be found in most Commonwealth cemeteries) is placed on a German pill box. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and is located close to Passendale (or Passchendaele) in Belgium.
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