Messines Ridge
Messines Ridge Cemetery
954 'Unknown' Soldiers lie here
Nearly 2500 burials in total
In the background can be seen the
The Island of Ireland Peace Tower
New Zealand Memorial
The New Zealand Memorial forms part
of the entrance to the Cemetery.
It list 840 men who were killed on the Ypres
salient and have no known grave.
Many of the men named here would have died
during the Battle Of Messines
June 1917