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BOUSSU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Hainaut

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.4183 Longitude: 3.78465

Location Information

The village of Boussu is located west of the town of Mons off the N51. From the motorway E19/E42 turn off at junction 25 onto the N547 direction Boussu/Hornu. Follow the N547 to the junction with the N51 and turn right, follow through the village of Hornu towards Boussu. In the Grand Place of Boussu the road turns sharp left, follow along to the junction with the N549. Follow the N549 direction Boussu-Bois, cross the railway and the communal cemetery is on the right. The graves are located in plot C7.


Historical Information

Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery contains one Commonwealth burial of the First World War.


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Pictures in gallery below © Joël Deudon


Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
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707752 Private 
Charles Howard Clark
26 Bn. Canadian Infantry
8th November 1918, aged 33.

Son of Wellington J. and Evelyn J. Clark, of Corn Hill, Kings Co., New Brunswick.

His headstone bears the inscription " In Christ He Lived And Died Blessed Are The Dead Who Die In The Lord"

Charles Clark, born in 1885, was one of three sons of Mr. & Mrs. Wellington Jackson Clark of Corn Hill who enlisted in World War One. He served overseas and met his death in November, 1918, in the last charge of the 26th Battalion.


Pictures in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery
Boussu-Bois Communal Cemetery

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