Hop Store Hospital Vlamertinge

Although Vlamertinge was just within range of German artillery during most of the war, Allied artillery units and field ambulances regularly had their headquarters here. The hop warehouse west of the village was just out of reach of the enemy artillery and therefore functioned as a medical post and lazarette.
The most deaths occurred in 1915 and 1917, 58 of them belonged to the 'Royal Artillery'.

The Hopstore Cemetery was founded in May 1915 in the shadow of the hop warehouse (hospital). The cemetery was squeezed between a hedge and the warehouse buildings, so it remained rather small. Numerous fallen Royal Engineers were buried there.
Because the cemetery was low-lying and quickly became muddy, it had to be drained by the Royal Engineers in 1917.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman