The land on which this cemetery stands is the free gift of the Belgian
people for the perpetual resting place of those of the allied armies who fell in the war
of 1914-1918 and are honoured here.
The Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves
Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a burial ground for the dead of the First World
War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.
German Bunkers at Tyne
Cot
Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world, contains two large
concrete bunkers which once formed a part of the German defensive line on the ridge at
Passchendaele.