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LIÈGE (ROBERMONT) CEMETERY

Liege

​Belgium


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.63238 Longitude: 5.60543
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 Liege Cemetery (Robermont)

​Location Information

From the motorway E40/A3, which runs between Brussels and Liege, turn off between junctions 35 and 36 onto the E25/A25. Follow this road along by the river to the junction with the N3 and turn onto the N3 in the direction Bressoux/Fleron - this road is called rue d' Amercoeur, then rue de Carmel, then rue de Robermont and then rue de Herve. As the road name changes to rue de Herve the cemetery is on the left behind a tall brick wall.

The Commonwealth war graves are located to the far right hand side of the cemetery. Go through the main entrance and follow the path directly ahead to the chapel, turn right here and follow this path straight on to the edge of the cemetery, bear left and the graves are in plot 163 on the left.


Visiting Information

Please note that the Cemetery closes at 16.30 each day.


Historical Information

Liege was attacked by the Germans on 4 August 1914. The city itself was occupied on the 7th but the last forts were not captured until the 16th. Liege remained in German hands until the end of the war.

The city cemetery at Robermont was used for the burial of Allied prisoners of war and now contains French, Belgian, Italian, Russian and Commonwealth war graves plots.

The Commonwealth plot contains 50 burials of the First World War, and one from the Second World War, one Belgian national, who flew with the RAF, is buried elsewhere in the cemetery.

The commonwealth plot was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw


Total Burials: 52.

World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 40, Canada 3, New Zealand 1, Russia 1. Total 45.

World War One Unidentified Casualties: 5. 

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 1, Belgium 1. (Flew with the R. A. F. ) 2.

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Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
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62900 Private
Alexis Harry Victor Anderson
New Zealand Entrenching Battalion, N.Z.E.F.
31st October 1918, aged 30.
Grave 28.

Son of Robert and L. S. Anderson, of Greenstreet, Ashburton, New Zealand; husband of Helen Anderson, of 37, Rata Rd., Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.


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3/3391 Private
Harry Savage
1st Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
18th May 1915, aged 33.
Grave 13.

Son of John and Kate Savage, of Sheffield; husband of Rose Miriam Savage, of 106, Martin St., Sheffield.


Picture courtesy of his  great grandson John Savage

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27131 Private
William Alfred Thomas
15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
4th May 1915, aged 19.
Grave 12.

Son of John Thomas, of 153, Carlow Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.

He was gassed on 29th April 1915 during the battle of St. Julien, taken prisoner and later died in Liege.


Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Picture © André De Smet
Liege Cemetery (Robermont)
Picture © André De Smet
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1918; German graves near Liege, Belgium. Recognised names of fallen servicemen are: Karl Schubert; Lieutenant Georg Berlinide; Lieutenant Emil Reim of the 478th Infantry Regiment (Wurttemberg Army), killed in action on 28 March 1918.
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Young Men's Christian Association rest house at Liege, 9 February 1919. © IWM Q 3600
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Admiral David Beatty's visit to Belgium. A tour round the forts at Liege. © IWM Q 3632

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Liege (Ste. Walburge) Communal Cemetery
Angleur Communal Cemetery
Herstal (Rhees) Communal Cemetery

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