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Attention: the War Dead Register only lists Belgian fallen soldiers.  
The War Dead Register provides basic personal information (name, first name, date and place of birth, etc.) and does not contain military files (giving a complete overview of the military career). According to date of birth the files are kept either by the Royal Military Museum or by the Defence archives service. The files safeguarded at the Military Museum can be consulted on site (Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels). The files kept up till now by Defence are currently transferred to the General State Archives.
The date on which they will be once again available has not yet been determined.   

 

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?
Lindestraat, 3620 Veldwezelt
 
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Belgian military plot of honour  
 

This plot of honour mainly contains graves of soldiers killed on 10 May 1940 while defending the Albert Canal. Airborne offensives soon cause Fort Eben-Emael and the bridges over the Albert Canal to fall into German hands. The Belgian defenders give it their all and great resistance is offered especially near the bridges, but the enemy advance proves unstoppable. German superiority is too great and the Belgians are forced to retreat, but have to leave behind dozens of dead in the process. 
The casualties are buried in the municipal cemetery. After the war, some of them are repatriated to their former places of residence and the plot of honours then acquires its final lay out.