BELLE-MOTTE FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
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.
Pictures in gallery below © André De Smet
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.
Pictures in gallery below © André De Smet
Pictures in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
