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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.
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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)
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.
The area has 139 sites spanning western Belgium and northern France and has been a living history almost since the guns finally fell silent in 1918. In neighboring Ypres, “every evening ...
Essex Farm Cemetery is a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground within the John McCrae Memorial Site near Ypres, Belgium. [1] There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and has an area of 6,032 square metres (64,930 sq ft).