Tyne Cot

Tyne Cot
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1917–1918
Established	October 1917
Location	50°53′13″N 02°59′53″E / 50.88694°N 2.99806°E / 50.88694; 2.99806 near  Passendale, West Flanders, Belgium
Designed by	Sir Herbert Baker
Total burials	11,965, of which 8,369 are unnamed
Unknowns	101
Burials by nation
Allied Powers: United Kingdom: 8,907 Canada: 966 Newfoundland: 14 Australia: 1,353 New Zealand: 519 South Africa: 90 British West Indies: 2 France: 1 Central Powers: Germany: 4
Burials by war
World War I: 11,954
1914 – Here are recorded the names of officers and men of the armies of the British Empire who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death – 1918[1]
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, vi
Designated	2023 (45th session)
Reference no.	1567-FL08
Statistics source: CWGC

Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside Passendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.