On 23 October 1914, during the 1st Battle of Ypres, the German army attacked Langemark which was being defended by the British. About 15% of Germany's volunteers were students and high school graduates. Entire lecture-rooms and classes - together with professors and teachers - had taken themselves down to the recruiting offices. That morning the German Army hurled these units of enthusiastic but untrained students into the fray against Langemark. They were shot down in thousands by the only professional Army then in Europe - the British. Most of these 3,000 students lie here at Langemark and for this reason the cemetery is often known as the Students Cemetery. A chamber at the cemetery entrance, about 12 feet square, is covered on all walls by their list of names...part of which is shown above