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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?
Bruggestraat, 8820 Torhout
 
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History

During the final days of the Eighteen-Day Campaign countless retreating soldiers and refugees end up in Torhout, all fleeing the ruthless German advance. The town is the target of several bombings, and medical installations are filled to capacity. 
Chaos is complete and units fall apart. Everyone realises that the end is imminent. Every day fallen soldiers are buried in simple graves in the local cemetery. After the war most of them are transferred to their former places of residence, but eleven casualties remain in Torhout.

 

Casualties

11 Second World War (1 unidentified)

 

Description

The plot of honour consists of a single row of simple white tombstones. The vacant spaces in between the graves used to be occupied by casualties since transferred to their former places of residence by their families.