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The Western Front Today - 1st DCLI (The Bluff) Cemetery

The 1st DCLI (The Bluff) Cemetery (Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), in the Ypres Salient near Verbrandenmolen (4km south-east of Ypres), dates from April-July 1915.W

The cemetery, which contains 114 graves in total, includes 51 burials of men from the 1st DCLI who died in defence of 'the bluff' during the early months of 1915.

There are 15 unknown burials.


References:
Before Endeavours Fade, Rose E.B. Coombs, After the Battle 1994
Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Ypres Salient, Leo Cooper 2000

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