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First World War.com - The Western Front Today - Tyne Cot Cemetery (343 words) |
 | The largest British war cemetery in the world, Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. |
| On the wall at the back of the cemetery are the names of 34,927 soldiers who have no known grave and died from August 1917 to the end of the war - a continuation of the names inscribed on the Menin Gate. |
| The name 'Tyne Cot' is said to originate (there is some dispute over this) from a reference by Northumberland Fusiliers during the war to the likeness of the German pillboxes to Tyneside cottages. |
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