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Archives of the Royal Military Museum 

Documentation Centre 
Parc du Cinquantenaire 3
1000 Brussels
E-mail : cdoc.klm-mra@warheritage.be   
Website: www.warheritage.be

Cemetery details

Where?
Biesemkerkweg, 9880 Aalter
 
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History

Between mid-October and early November 1918, during the liberation offensive, heavy fighting takes place in Aalter. Countless servicemen are wounded and most of them die in the Kranepoel dressing station in Aalter and in the evacuation hospital in Sint-Maria-Aalter.
On 4 August 1923 the Aalter town council decides to donate a plot of land for the creation of an honours court, which thus testifies to these last days of war. In early 1924 the Military Cemeteries Department announces that the fallen soldiers buried in the neighbouring municipalities are to be exhumed and reburied in the Aalter honours court.
Today 70 casualties are still buried here, but that used to be more, because after the hostilities 27 bodies were transferred to their former places of residence.

 

Casualties

63 First World War (1 unidentified) - 7 Second World War

 

Description

The honours court is situated at the front of the cemetery on the right-hand side. The Great War graves are arranged in a square; a circle in the middle contains Belgian graves from the Second World War. The gravestones are of the Belgian bluestone model with bronze plaques. In the middle of the cemetery the flagpole flies the Belgian tricolour.