Tyne Cot

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Tyne Cot Cemetery

The Memorial

• Commemorates 35,000 Commonwealth Soldiers buried in un-known graves

• 70% of these graves are of unknown soldiers.

• Located at Broodseine Ridge

The Battle for Broodseine Ridge

• 4th October 1917• Aim: dislodge entrenched

Germans• At 6am, attack launched • Allied Forces were victorious• Germans retook the ridge in

March 1917

Tyne Cot

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Tyne Cot Cemetery

• 35,000 Commonwealth Soldiers

• Broodseine Ridge, Passchendale and Langemark.

• Broodseine Ridge - 4th October 1917

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