Notable Graves
The cemetery contains the graves of 198 soldiers. Amongst these are the graves of six Australian troops killed simultaneously by the same shell. These graves are symbolically grouped together.
Rose Coombs, who did much to popularise Ieper and the Salient for tourists and pilgrims through her book "Before Endeavours Fade" (ISBN 0-900913-85-1), had her ashes scattered in this cemetery in 1991.
Read more about this topic: Ramparts (Lille Gate) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
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