The Western Front Today - Chester Farm Cemetery
Chester Farm cemetery, situated in the Ypres Salient, is approximately one kilometre from the large Bedford House cemetery and a short distance from Spoilbank cemetery.
The cemetery (inevitably named after a farm close by) contains 424 burials were of men killed while fighting on the nearby 'Bluff'.
Also buried in the cemetery are four German soldiers.
References:
Before Endeavours Fade, Rose E.B. Coombs, After the Battle 1994
Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Ypres Salient, Leo Cooper 2000
A "salient" is a battle line that projects into territory nominally held by enemy forces.
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