Belgian Military Cemetery, Lier (Lier)
Belgium /
Antwerpen /
Duffel /
Lier /
Mechelsesteenweg
World
/ Belgium
/ Antwerpen
/ Duffel
World / Belgium / Vlaanderen / Antwerpen / Mechelen
military, cemetery
The cemetery holds 490 graves of World War I.
117 graves are not identified, the soldiers who are resting here perished in the months September and October of 1914.
Besides the 490 Belgian soldiers buried here, there are 42 graves of the commonwealth of World War II.
Behind the cemetery is a monument created by the German artist George Kolbe.
Until 1956 there was a German Cemetery here that has been moved to Vladslo (BE).
117 graves are not identified, the soldiers who are resting here perished in the months September and October of 1914.
Besides the 490 Belgian soldiers buried here, there are 42 graves of the commonwealth of World War II.
Behind the cemetery is a monument created by the German artist George Kolbe.
Until 1956 there was a German Cemetery here that has been moved to Vladslo (BE).
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°6'34"N 4°31'39"E
- Quarters Onder Luitenant Baron Zuylen van Nyevelt 6.9 km
- Quarters Majoor Housiau 20 km
- Melsbroek Air Base 22 km
- Quarters Koningin Astrid 24 km
- Former NATO Headquarters 27 km
- Quarters Koningin Elisabeth 27 km
- Quarters Commandant de Hemptinne 30 km
- Quarters Meerdaal 34 km
- Beauvechain Air Base 41 km
- Command and Staff Quarters 42 km
- Reynaers Aluminium NV/SA 1.2 km
- Lint 380 kV Substation 1.6 km
- Duffel (municipality) 1.7 km
- Lint (municipality) 2.9 km
- Lier (municipality) 3.5 km
- Aleris Aluminum Duffel BVBA 4.3 km
- Sint-Katelijne-Waver (municipality) 5.3 km
- Kontich (Municipality) 6.2 km
- Putte 9 km
- Mechelen (municipality) 10 km