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BLAUGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Hainaut

​Belgium

GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.37312 Longitude: 3.80243
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Location Information

The village of Blaugies is located south-west of the town of Mons off the N549. From the motorway E42 turn off at junction 26 onto the N552 direction Bavay. Follow the N552 to the junction with the N549 then follow the N549 direction Bavay (France). On entering the village of Athis turn left at the junction with the N555 direction Blaugies. In the village take the first turning right into rue de la Frontiere and the communal cemetery is along on the right. The graves are located in plots 2 and 3 in the rear left corner.


Historical Information

Blaugies Communal Cemetery contains five Commonwealth burials of the First World War, all dating from November 1918.

Pictures in gallery © Johan Pauwels


Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
Blaugies Communal Cemetery
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Captain 
William Geoffrey Walford
62nd Sqdn. Royal Air Force, Royal Engineers and Royal Monmouthshire Regiment
4th November 1918, aged 23.

​Son of Capt. William Walford and Laura C. Walford of Glanmonnow, Garway, Hereford 

Other Burial Details

2404 Sergeant  J. E. Hilton,  1st/7th Bn. Middlesex Regt. 8th November 1918, aged 41. Son of William and Mary Hilton; husband of Beatrice Hilton of 10 Treverton Street, North Kensington, London. 

6452 Private Thomas Hyde, 
1st/8th Bn. Middlesex Regt. 8th November 1918, aged 27. Son of William and Mary Hyde of Leighton Buzzard; husband of Margaret L. Hyde of 28 East Street, Leighton Buzzard, 
Bedfordshire. 

Lieutenant Francis Sumsion, 
62nd Sqdn. Royal Air Force and Welsh Regt. 4th November 1918, aged 25. Son of Daniel and Sarah Sumsion of 6 Cerdin Avenue, Pontyclun, Glamorgan. 

203451 Private Charles John Ward, 1st/7th Bn. Middlesex Regt. 8th November 1918, aged 20. Son of George Ward of 17 Colin Road, Willesden, London. Native of Marylebone, London.

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