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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?
Kerkhofweg, 9200 Dendermonde
 
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History

This neo-Gothic cemetery is created in 1882 at the request of the Dendermonde city council on the border between Appels and Dendermonde. Well-to-do citizens build imposing tombstones, which give the cemetery quite a stately appearance. The cemetery is listed as architectural heritage in 2010.

 

Casualties

155 First World War (23 unidentified) 

 

Description

The military honours court with its 135 individual graves is located next to the civilian section and is rectangular in shape. The typical Belgian headstones are arranged in parallel rows. Most casualties buried here fell in the Dendermonde area during the first months of the Great War. 
The Dendermonde funerary monument shows a bronze soldier. It was created in 1930 by Alfred Courtens, teacher with the sculpting section of the Dendermonde Academy and famed for the design of such pieces. Underneath the structure lie twenty of Dendermonde’s fallen soldiers, who died on the battlefields where the Belgian army fought between 1914 and 1918.