Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery

Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front in Belgium.

[4] After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged with the concentration of graves from the battlefield, smaller cemeteries in the area (Brussels General, Ghistelles Churchyard, Oudenburg Churchyard, Wervik Communal) and Commonwealth troops buried in from German war cemeteries (America Cross Roads, Kortemark, Eernegem, Groenenberg, Handzaame, Ichtegem, Leffinghe, Marckhove, Tenbrielen Communal, Tourhout No 2, Vladsloo, Warneton Sud-et-Bas, Wijnendaele, Zantvoorde).

[5] These graves all carry (unless replaced by a personalised family message) the inscription at the foot of the stone "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out" - a line from Sirach 44:13[6] suggested by Rudyard Kipling.

[7] The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens[1] who was also responsible for the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London and the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme, France.

[1] Amongst these is the grave of Rifleman Clarence Eastwood Peel, who was killed in the area on 21 October 1917.

The entrance to the cemetery.
C/7044 Rifleman C E Peel of the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps .