Tyne Cot Cemetery

Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British Cemetery in the world containing many thousand graves and a Memorial to the Missing for the soldiers that have no known graves. The Memorial to the Missing has over 33,000 names of Commonwealth Soldiers including 1176 NZers.

The area of the cemetery was captured by NZ and Australian troops on 4th October 1917.

I arrived just before dawn and it was a bit foggy!

Walls surrounding the cemetery that contains the names of the soldiers with no lnown graves.

German pillbox. There are three German pilboxes within the cemetery.

Plaque on the NZ Memorial.