CWCG burial ground for the british soldiers killed in the town of Mesen during First World War
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The cemetery also includes the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, also designed by Holden, in memory of 840 soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force killed in the area and who have no known grave. The memorial, at the entrance to the cemetery, takes the form of a Cross of Sacrifice on a circular base about which are provided panels with the names of the missing, including that of the All Black George Sellars, killed during the Battle of Messines
Inside the entrance, the Cross of Sacrifice sits atop the Messines (New Zealand) Memorial, the base of which is inscribed with the names of 828 New Zealanders who died in this area in 1917 & 1918 and have no known grave.
The memorial commemorates more than 800 New Zealand soldiers, and the Cemetery beyond has over 1500 graves, approximately two-thirds of which are unidentified. This is because the cemetery was created by recovery of many bodies from the Messines battlefields after the war.
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