The Royal Engineers grave at Railway Wood marks the site where twelve soldiers (eight Royal Engineers of the 177th Tunnelling Company and four attached infantrymen) were killed between November 1915 and August 1917 whilst tunnelling under the hill near Hooge during the defence of Ypres.
The memorial at Railway Wood commemorates the site where twelve soldiers (eight Royal Engineers from the 177th Tunnelling Company and four attached infantrymen) perished between November 1915 and August 1917 while digging tunnels beneath a hill near Hooge during the defense of Ypres.