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DOTTIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Hainaut

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.73045 Longitude: 3.30474

Location Information

The town of Dottignies is located south of Mouscron (Moeskroen) on the N58. From the E17 motorway from Kortrijk turn off at the junction with the N58 direction Dottignies. In the town at the T junction the N58 is to the left. Follow the N512 and take the fifth turning left into rue A Poullet, the communal cemetery is along here on the right. The graves are located in the centre of the cemetery by the crucifix. 


Historical Information

Dottignies Communal Cemetery contains 24 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, all officers and men of the 14th Division who died in the Advance to Victory in October and November 1918.


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Dottignies Communal Cemetery
Dottignies Communal Cemetery
Dottignies Communal Cemetery
Dottignies Communal Cemetery
Dottignies Communal Cemetery
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Major
James Mitchell White Halley, M. C. 
62nd Field Company, Royal Engineers
24th October 1918, aged 41.
Plot I. B. 6.

Son of James Halley, of Glasgow; husband of Edith White Halley (nee Bird), of 36, Elsham Rd., Kensington, London. Architect, F.R.I.B.A.

His headstone bears the inscription, In Loving Memory Of My Husband "Omnia Vincit Amor"


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861201 Private
Kenneth Bernard Layzell
33rd Bn. London Regiment
6th November 1918, aged 19.
Plot I. C. 6.

Son of Arthur James and Ruth Ellen Layzell, of 2, Harvard Rd., Lewisham, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Gave His Today So That We Might Have Our Tomorrow"


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