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Documentation Centre 
Parc du Cinquantenaire 3
1000 Brussels
E-mail : cdoc.klm-mra@warheritage.be   
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Cemetery details

Where?
Zevenkerken, 8200 Sint-Andries
 
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History

On 10 May 1940 Zevenkerken Abbey in Sint-Andries-Brugge is set up as military hospital No. 33. Each room receives hundreds of wounded. In no fewer than ten operating theatres surgery is performed around the clock. By the end of the Eighteen-Day Campaign the situation is hopeless and the staff leaves the hospital. The wounded who cannot be moved are left behind under the watchful eye of Captain Doctor Toussaint, assisted by the nuns from the convent in Loppem. 
72 wounded die and are buried in the woods adjacent to the abbey. Today the cemetery counts 26 graves.

 

Casualties

26 Second World War (1 unidentified)

 

Description

The graves are positioned in two parallel rows and are sometimes separated by many open spaces. These are the former graves of those killed in action and who, upon request of their families, are taken back to their former places of residence after the war. The grave crosses are of a simple Belgian bluestone design. The cemetery has no military status and is maintained by the abbey.