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HOUYET CHURCHYARD
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Namur

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.18532 Longitude: 5.01144

Location Information

The village of Houyet is located south of the town of Dinant on the N929. From the motorway E411/A4 which runs between Namur and Luxembourg turn off at junction 22 onto the N94 direction Dinant. Follow the N94 to the junction with the N929 and turn left here direction Houyet/Finnevaux. Follow this road along into the village of Houyet and turn right over the railway to the centre. Follow the road round to the right and the church is on the left in Rue de L'Eglise. The graves are located at the rear of the church.


Historical Information

The 53rd Casualty Clearing Station was posted in the village of Houyet from December 1918 to May 1919.

Houyet Churchyard contains 23 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and two from the Second World War.



World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 13, Canada 6, Australia 2, South Africa 2. Total 23.

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2. 



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2395 Private
William Berrill
49th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F. 
6th March 1919, aged 42.
Row B. 7.

Son of Mrs. Jane Berrill; husband of Rachel Berrill, of 117, Alfred St., Milson's Point, North Sydney, New South Wales. Native of Rockhampton, Queensland.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Memory Of The Loving Husband & Daddy Of Mrs Berrill & Son Fred"



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89381 Gunner
Arthur Henry Whittaker
6th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
26th February 1919.
Row B. 13.



World War Two Graves

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1922170 Lance Corporal Thomas Ralph Howells, 244th Field Company, Royal Engineers, died 26th December 1944, aged 25.

2079609 Sapper Allen Richards, 244th Field Company, Royal Engineers, died 26th December 1944, aged 23.


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FINNEVAUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
BEAURAING COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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