Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1914–1919
Established	1914
Location	50°49′45″N 02°42′04″E / 50.82917°N 2.70111°E / 50.82917; 2.70111Coordinates: 50°49′45″N 02°42′04″E / 50.82917°N 2.70111°E / 50.82917; 2.70111 near Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by	Sir Reginald Blomfield
Total burials	10,785 of which 35 are unnamed
Burials by nation
Commonwealth: 9,901 of which 24 are unnamed United Kingdom: 7,386 Canada: 1,058 Australia: 1,131 New Zealand: 291 South Africa: 29 India: 3 other nationalities: 883 of which 11 are unnamed
Burials by war
World War I: 10,784 (plus 1 non World War burial)
Statistics source: CWGC

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. After Tyne Cot, it is the second largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in Belgium. Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is located near Poperinge in the province of West Flanders. Most of those buried in the cemetery are war casualties who had been wounded near Ypres and later died in the four large Allied casualty clearing stations located in this area.

During the First World War, the village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases and the Ypres battlefields. Because of its location close to the Ypres frontline, but out of the range of most German field artillery, Lijssenthoek was chosen as the site of Allied casualty clearing stations. A farm called Remi Quaghebeur became the centre point at Lijssenthoek around which a number of field hospitals were established. During the war, the location was also known as Remy Farm, and many structures in the vicinity were used for medical purposes. Farm buildings also stood just north-west of the modern-day cemetery, and this site was known as Corfu Farm during the war. Rail tracks were constructed from the main railway line to enable ambulance trains to bring Allied wounded into these medical units from Poperinge and to take them from there on to the large military hospitals on the French coast.

The cemetery was originally established at the start of the war by the French Army's 15th Hopital D'Evacuation. Between autumn 1914 and early summer 1915, this unit began to bury casualties who had been treated at their Lijssenthoek field hospital but had not survived their wounds. At this time French military forces were present in the Ypres Salient, holding the Allied front line positions to the north and to the south-east of Ypres.