BRUSSELS TOWN
CEMETERY
Evere
Vlaams-Brabant
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: In the north east of the city in the district of Evere, take the E40 in the direction of Brussels and leave at junction 19, sign posted for Woulwe and Evere. Follow signs for Evere to the right and continue for 500m along avenue des Communautes to the first set of traffic lights. Continue straight on and down the avenue Ciceron before turning left at the roundabout at the bottom of the road. The entrance to the Town Cemetery is on the right. The Commonwealth Plot is as far as you can go on the left.
Further Information: It should be noted when visiting this cemetery that photography is forbidden without permission from the local alderman responsible for funerals and burials. Although the CWGC advise that as they themselves have no objection to the photographing of their plot or its headstones, visitors should inform the staff in the cemetery office at the entrance of their intentions. The cemetery is also subject to local opening hours, it is open every day except Mondays between 0830-1630. The cemetery, as one would expect, is vast and the Commonwealth plot is quite a distance from the entrance.
Brussels remained in German hands from August 20th 1914 until the armistice, and the majority of burials in this cemetery are prisoners of war, brought back from Germany by the Canadian Corps in 1919. This cemetery also contains burials from the Second World War.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 4; Canada 50; Total Burials: 54
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