Schoonselhof Cemetery CWGC
Belgium /
Antwerpen /
Hemiksem /
World
/ Belgium
/ Antwerpen
/ Hemiksem
World / Belgium / Vlaanderen / Antwerpen / Antwerpen
Second World War 1939-1945, First World War 1914-1918, war cemetery
This part of Schoonselhof Cemetery contains 101 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, some of which were brought in from other burial grounds in the area after the Armistice. Second World War burials number 1,456. The Commonwealth plot also contains 16 non-war burials, most of them Merchant seamen whose deaths were not due to war service, and 16 Polish and one French war grave.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonselhof_cemetery
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Coordinates: 51°9'50"N 4°22'16"E
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