Directions

Mud Corner British Cemetery is located near Ploegsteert ('Plug Street') Wood. From Ieper, take the N336 in the direction of Armentieres. After passing through Mesen, a signpost points to five CWGC cemeteries, including Mud Corner. Park beside the first cemetery, Prowse Point, and follow the track on foot for 300 metres to Mud Corner Cemetery.

About the cemetery

Mud Corner Cemetery holds a special place in the hearts of Australian and New Zealand visitors. This is truly an Anzac cemetery with all the graves except one being Australian or New Zealand. Mud Corner Cemetery was started by New Zealand troops on June 7 1917, during the Battle of Messines. It was used until December 1917. Most of the Australians buried in Mud Corner were killed during the Battle of Messines or soon after.

Mud Corner Cemetery is truly a battlefield cemetery - it was constructed very close to the front and the track that runs past it was an approach route used by British troops as they marched to the trenches in the Plug Street sector. It does not require too great a leap of imagination to visualise the cemetery as the troops saw it - the green fields a quagmire, the muddy track leading past crooked wooden crosses into the shattered remnants of Plug Street Wood. There is probably no better place in the Ypres Salient to feel such a direct connection with the 1917 battles.

Total burials: 85

Australian burials: 31 (all identified)