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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?
Stationstraat, 9850 Landegem
 
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History

In spite of constant allied progress by the end of October 1918, the Germans still hold out. They take up positions behind every waterway worth mentioning in the East Flanders flatlands and establish formidable defences. 
They thus also await the Belgians behind the derivation canal and the latter are forced to cross the water fully exposed. The engineering corps tries to build footbridges, but the soldiers are massacred by German machineguns. The troops behind them are also under heavy fire and more than 200 Belgian soldiers die here in these last days of the war.

 

Casualties

24 First World War (1 unidentified)

 

Description

After the First World War, the fallen soldiers are given a final resting place next to the parish church. During the Second World War the bodies are transferred to the current cemetery. The graves are arranged in a large arch and the honours court is surrounded by the graves of Landegem civilian war casualties and veterans passing after the war.