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LEUZE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Hainaut

​Belgium
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GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.59759 Longitude: 3.63158
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Leuze Communal Cemetery
Picture © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information

Leuze Communal Cemetery is located midway between Mons and Tournai. From Tournai the N7 Chaussee de Tournai leads to the small town of Leuze en Hainaut. Shortly after crossing the railway bridge on the boulevard du Prince Regent lies the right hand turning onto the chemin du Vieuxpont. The second left hand turning onto the chemin de Beloeil leads for 600 metres to the cemetery itself. The British plots are in the South corner of the cemetery, a little to the right of the entrance.


Visiting Information

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

Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.


Historical Information

Leuze was in German hands from August 1914, until it was entered by Commonwealth forces on 10 November 1918. The communal cemetery was used by German medical units and, during the last fortnight of November 1918, by No. 44 and No. 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations.

The cemetery contains 58 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also four Second World War burials, two of them unidentified, dating from May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk ahead of the German advance.

Total Burials: 64.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 55, New Zealand 1, Russia 1, Total 57.

World War One Unidentified Casualties: 3.

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2.

World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 2.

Commonwealth plot designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw

Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery

Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery
Leuze Communal Cemetery
Picture
267269 Private
J. P. Mackenzie
1st/4th Seaforth Highlanders
27th August 1918.
​Plot II. D. 1.



Picture
A British soldier asleep on a German notice board "zur Ortskommandantur", Ath, November 1918. © IWM Q 3367
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Leuze Station, as left by the enemy, looking east. November 1918. © IWM Q 46861
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Trestle over a large culvert running across the railway yard at Ath, as left by the enemy. October 1918. © IWM Q 46876
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Released British POWs meeting British troops. Ath, 14 November 1918. © IWM Q 11444
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British troops looking at a dummy German 'hanged' in the doorway of a brewery in Ath, November 1918. © IWM Q 3371

Nearby Cemeteries

Irchonwelz Communal Cemetery
Ormeignies Communal Cemetery
Grandmetz Churchyard


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