Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing

The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial in Belgium for lacking infantrymen of World War I. It commemorates men from the Allied Powers who fought at the northern Western Front outside the Ypres Salient and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is positioned inside the village of Ploegsteert and stands inside the middle of Berks Cemetery Extension. After Ploegsteert Wood had been the web site of fierce fighting on the start of the battle, it have become a quite quiet area where no primary movement happened.

Allied units had been sent here to recuperate and retrain after fighting elsewhere and earlier than returning to lively operations. Berks Cemetery Extension became founded with the aid of Commonwealth troops in June 1916 as an extension to Hyde Park Corner Cemetery which lies throughout the road. The cemetery grounds were assigned to the UK in perpetuity by way of King Albert I of Belgium in reputation of the sacrifices made by means of the British Empire within the defence and liberation of Belgium all through the struggle.