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AACHEN MILITARY CEMETERY

Nordrhein-Westfalen

​Germany


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.74577, Longitude: 6.1082

Aachen Military Cemetery
Image © Johan Pauwels

​Location Information


Aachen is a city in West Germany, close to the Dutch and Belgian borders, approx 85km west of Köln (Cologne) and 52kms east of Liege. From the A4 Köln to Aachen motorway follow direction A44 BRUSSEL / LIEGE. Take exit 2 (Ausfahrt 2) AACHEN-LICHTENBUSH and follow direction L223 MONSCHAU. Continue for approx 3kms and the main cemetery entrance (EHRENFRIEDHOF / WALDFRIEDHOF) can be found on the right. Turn left immediately inside the entrance gate and continue for approx 50m to the German War Graves, then turn left and continue for a further 50m, the single CWGC headstone can be found on the left.

The cemetery address is: Monschauer Straße 52076 Aachen, Germany.

Historical Information


The majority of First World War Commonwealth war graves in Germany were moved into four permanent cemeteries after the war. However, a few graves could not be moved on religious grounds or for other reasons and they remain in their original locations in German military and civil cemeteries. Most of the Commonwealth graves in Aachen Military Cemetery were removed to Cologne Southern Cemetery, but one grave remains, that of a Gurkha rifleman.

Burial Details

​4211 Rifleman Kami Gurung 1st Bn. 4th Gurkha Rifles, died 1st January 1915. Former "Allies Plot" grave 53.
 Son of Birbhan Gurung, of Hinjacket, Kaski, No. 3 West, Nepal.

Entrance and Commonwealth War Grave

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Aachen Military Cemetery (Waldfriedhof)

The Waldfriedhof (Forest Cemetery) has military and civilian grave sections and is the final resting places for victims of World War I and II.  Several monuments commemorate the victims of the Nazi-period in Germany. Opened in 1939.

Approx Numbers from both world wars

Germany 4,796, Russia 235, Romania 15, Yugoslavia 12, Serbia 11, Poland 7, Netherlands 3, Belgium 2, France 1, U. K. 1. 

​All images © Johan Pauwels


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