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LA LOUVIÈRE TOWN CEMETERY
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Hainaut
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​Belgium


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GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.48185 Longitude: 4.20346

La Louviere Town Cemetery
Picture © Johan Pauwels
Location Information

La Louvière Town Cemetery is located midway between Mons (16 Km) and Charleroi (21 Km).

From Mons the cemetery is located via the E42 and the exit showing La Louvière Centre, leading onto the rue Eugie Dubois. After 500 metres turn left onto the rue de la Grattine, then continue for a further 500 metres to the right hand turn onto the rue de la Flache. The cemetery is located 100 metres along this road on the left hand side.
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Visiting Information

Visitors should note that this site is restricted to normal cemetery opening hours.

Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.


Historical Information

No. 30 Casualty Clearing Station was at La Louvière after the Armistice, from December 1918 to April 1919. They began the Commonwealth plot in the communal cemetery, and later, 11 Commonwealth burials made by the Germans elsewhere in the cemetery during the occupation were moved there.

The cemetery now contains 49 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. One of these burials is among the civilian graves.

The British plot covers an area of 231 square metres.

Casualty Details: ​United Kingdom 46, Australia 1, New Zealand 1, India 1.

Total Burials: 49.

​Commonwealth plot designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw


La Louvière Town Cemetery
La Louvière Town Cemetery

Cemetery images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
La Louviere Town Cemetery
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​85731 Private
Ernest Bond
42nd Bn. Machine Gun Corps. (Infantry)
8th November 1918

Row A. 17.

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Wounded arriving at No 13 Casualty Clearing Station by ambulance. © IWM Q 10418
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New arrivals in a receiving ward at No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, July 1916. © IWM CO 428
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Surgery in progress in an operating theatre suite at No 3 Casualty Clearing Station, July 1916. © IWM CO 157

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