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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?
Kerkhof van Brussellaan, 1140 Evere
 
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History

The honours court is located in the Brussels cemetery. The venue is however not located on the city’s own territory: because of limited open space, a site is purchased in Evere in 1874. The cemetery is designed by city architect Pierre Victor Jamaer and inaugurated by Brussels mayor Jules Anspach in 1877. 
Hundreds of grave monuments are transferred from old cemeteries cleared once the new one is operational. The cemetery, characterised by wide avenues, large roundabouts and numerous monuments, is the largest of the Brussels area.                                                                                                  The honours court contains casualties from both the First and the Second World War. They are mainly former Brussels residents.

 

Casualties

415 First World War

 

Description

The honours court can be accessed through a monumental entrance gate. The graves are simple low bluestone designs, laid out side by side in parallel rows. On the back rows lie veterans who passed after the war. German and British fallen soldiers have also been given honours courts in this venue. Various monuments commemorate wars and events. The monument to the British deployment at the Battle of Waterloo is one of the oldest and the one commemorating the victims of the 1967 fire at the Innovation department store one of the most recent.