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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?
Koning-Leopold II Laan, 3970 Leopoldsburg
 
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History

The town of Leopoldsburg establishes strong military links as early as 1835. A possible Dutch invasion in response to the secession of Belgium in 1830 then indeed calls for the creation of a military facility.  
Quite logically, a military cemetery is established as well. However, it is rather an oddity. Other cemeteries usually appear near a battlefield, but Leopoldsburg is set up for Belgian prisoners of war who pass away in German camps. The first victims arrive at the new cemetery in 1928. German casualties are transferred to Lommel after the Second World War. Fallen Belgian soldiers, resistance fighters and political prisoners fill the vacated gravesites. 

 

Casualties

819 First World War - 406 Second World War

Description

The cemetery consists of two large plots. At the front, in a somewhat peculiar design, the fallen of the First World War lie in various yards. The Second World War casualties are buried in the rear of the cemetery. They lie in long parallel rows under simpler tombstones made of reinforced concrete. The executed and the Soviet prisoners of war rest in a plot behind them. The grounds feature several memorial chapels.