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Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Louverval Military Cemetery and Cambrai Memorial; Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Pozières British Cemetery and Pozières Memorial; Commonwealth military cemetery and memorials: Faubourg D’amiens Cemetery, Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial
Vladslo contains 25.644 graves. Started in 1917, it held the bodies of 3,233 soldiers by the end of the war and in 1954 it was agreed that graves be moved to Vladslo, Langemark, Menen and Hooglede from the many smaller burial sites in the area and as a consequence the number of soldiers buried at Vadslo reached the present figure. Menen now ...
The numbers listed on the memorials reduces over time as remains are discovered, identified, and buried in a war grave, with the name removed from the memorial where it was listed, but over 300,000 war dead are still commemorated by these memorials to the missing.
Arlon Cemetery; Brussels Cemetery (also large military section) Campo Santo (Sint Amandsberg near Gent) Ixelles Cemetery; Laeken Cemetery; Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Cemetery; Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Cemetery; Schaerbeek Cemetery; Schoonselhof Cemetery (also large military section)
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This cemetery is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and occupies a six-acre (2.5 hectares) site. The government of Belgium granted its free use as a permanent burial ground in perpetuity without charge or taxation. [2] At the center of the cemetery is the small memorial chapel of white Pouillenay stone.
Belgium and France want them recognized as UNESCO World Heritage sites to make sure people stop and think. At 12, Robin Borremans is dreaming of becoming a helicopter pilot in Belgium's elite ...
Hooge Crater Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on the Western Front. Hooge Crater Cemetery is named after a mine crater blown nearby in 1915 (since filled in, see below) and located near the centre of Hooge , opposite the "Hooge Crater ...