Spanbroekmolen British 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.
[2] As in Lone Tree War Cemetery nearby, many of those buried here were from the 36th (Ulster) Division.
[2] Some of the men buried here were killed by the force of the explosion of a mine placed by the British Royal Engineers.
[4] The mine at Spanbroekmolen, which formed part of a series of mines under the German lines, was charged with 91,000 pounds (41,000 kg) of ammonal and set 88 feet (27 m) below ground, at the end of a gallery 1,710 feet (520 m) long.
[7] It was acquired in 1929 by the Toc H foundation in Poperinge, today recognised as the "Pool of Peace".