BELLE-MOTTE FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
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Hainaut

​Belgium

Location Information

Erected at the intersection of Sambreville, Pit-la-Ville and Aiseau-Presles, the Belle-Motte French National cemetery is not far from where the deadly fighting unfolded to August 22, 1914, a few steps from the farm Belle-Motte. 

The importance of this place, which has the graves of 4057 Bordeaux, Bretons, Normans, or North Africans, is one of the largest French cemeteries of the First World War on Belgian soil.


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The casualty numbers for each cemetery and G. P. S. Coordinates are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the burial numbers quoted due to rededication burials.