Sanctuary Wood Cemetery

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Sanctuary Wood Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground near Ypres in Belgium, commemorating soldiers who fell in the First World War battles around the Ypres Salient.

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Sanctuary Wood Cemetery canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery
associatedWithArea Ypres Salient
associatedWithBattle Battles of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres
Third Battle of Ypres
category Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Belgium
World War I memorials in Belgium
commemorates Australian Army soldiers
British Army soldiers
Canadian Army soldiers
Commonwealth military personnel
New Zealand Army soldiers
commemoratesConflict First World War
linked to: World War I

World War I
country Belgium
geographicCoordinateSystem WGS84
hasAccess public
hasFeature Cross of Sacrifice
Stone of Remembrance
uniform headstones
hasFunction war grave cemetery
hasGravesOf identified soldiers
unknown soldiers
hasHeritageStatus war memorial site
hasLanguageOfInscriptions English
hasMemorialsTo missing soldiers of World War I
hasOwner Commonwealth War Graves Commission
hasTypeOfBurial concentration cemetery
front-line cemetery
isPartOf Commonwealth war cemeteries in Belgium
locatedIn West Flanders
Ypres
Ypres Salient
locatedNear Hill 62
Sanctuary Wood Museum
locatedOn former Western Front
maintainedBy Commonwealth War Graves Commission
purpose commemoration of war dead
military burial ground
region Flanders

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Flanders Fields memorials hasPart Sanctuary Wood Cemetery
Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Canadian Memorial near Sanctuary Wood Cemetery
Hill 62 hasNearbyCemetery Sanctuary Wood Cemetery