Windy Corner was a road junction near the village of Cuinchy in the First World War.
It was in the section of the line held by the British army and there was a battalion headquarters there.
Burials took place there and there is now a cemetery maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
3,443 dead were buried there of which 1,246 have been identified.
[1] Major John Mackenzie (1871–1915) recipient of the Victoria Cross in the 19th century Anglo-Ashanti wars is buried here.