Directions

Adinkerke Military Cemetery is located 6km west of Veurne, 3km inland from the costal town of Koksijde and 20km east of Dunkirk. From Veurne the N39 Duinkerkestraat leads for 6km to the village of Adinkerke. On reaching the village of Adinkerke the cemetery is located on the first left hand turning onto the Kromfortstraat, on the left hand side of the road.

About the cemetery

During the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917, casualty clearing stations were established on the main transport routes to the Belgian coast. Two of these were located at the town of Oosthoek from June-November 1917, between the towns of Adinkerke and Furnes, and they treated British soldiers who had been wounded in fighting in the Salient. Soldiers who died of wounds whilst being treated here were buried in the surrounding area. Adinkerke Military Cemetery holds the remains of soldiers who died at the 24th and 29th Casualty Clearing Stations and now contains 168 Commonwealth burials from the First World War, as well as 55 from the Second World War. The cemetery also contains 142 German and Czech war graves. The five Australians buried in this cemetery were all members of the Field Artillery who died of wounds in August 1917.

Total burials: 359

Australian burials: 5 (all identified)