Bois Grenier (Y) 1. WK

Visitor Information Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible but can be via an alternative entrance. For further information on wheelchair access please contact our Enquiries Department on 01628 507200. History information The cemetery was named after a nearby farm called the Farm 'Y' (or Wye). It was started in March 1915 and used by units that held this sector until February 1918. At the Armistice it contained 335 burials, but it was then increased when graves were brought from the battlefields south of Armentieres and from the following cemeteries:- CROIX-BLANCHE BRITISH CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX (Pas-de-Calais), in a garden on the road to the south-east of Croix-Blanche. It was started by the 2nd Yorks and 1st Grenadier Guards and used from November 1914 to July 1916; it contained the graves of 36 soldiers from the United Kingdom DON GERMAN CEMETERY, ALLENNES-LES-MARAIS (Nord), contained an Indian grave. DOULIEU CHURCHYARD (North) contained the graves of four soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in October 1914 and one from Australia who fell in 1917. HANTAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (North), contained an Indian grave. LESTREM COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (Pas-de-Calais), made by the Germans in the summer of 1918. They buried three soldiers and two airmen from the United Kingdom in it. When Lestrem was recaptured, a British plot was created in which 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried. MARQUILLIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY and GERMAN EXTENSION (North) contained three Indian graves. MOUVAUX MILITARY CEMETERY (North), used from October 1918 to October 1919, was located in the grounds of the monastery of In Haut-Mont, near the airfield. It contained the graves of 51 soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom, one soldier from Canada and three men from the Cape Colored Labour Regiment. PONT-A-MARCQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (North), contained the graves of four soldiers from the United Kingdom and about 150 German soldiers. TEMPLEUVE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (North), in which one soldier from the United Kingdom and one from Australia were buried by the Germans, with about 200 of their men. Y Farm Military Cemetery now contains 835 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 288 of the burials are unidentified and a special memorial commemorates a New Zealand casualty believed to be buried among them. Another special memorial commemorates an Indian soldier buried in the Marquillies Communal Cemetery German Extension whose grave could not be found. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. Source: CWGC This cemetery is in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), the British partner organization of the War Graves Commission.