HAUTRAGE MILITARY CEMETERY
Saint-Ghislain
Hainaut
Belgium
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Situated 15km west of Mons on the N547, a road which leads from the N50 Route de Wallonie which connects Mons and Tournai, 15km along the N50 immediately before the village of Hautrage is a left turn onto the N547 Grande Route de Mons. The cemetery can be found 800m along on the right. Access and parking is easy.
For almost the whole of the war Hautrage was in German hands and this cemetery was started by them in August 1914, it was later used in 1918 when they concentrated the graves of many British soldiers killed in 1914 and buried on the surrounding battlefields or in local cemeteries here. After the armistice, graves were brought here from other cemeteries in the area.
CEMETERIES CONCENTRATED INTO HAUTRAGE MILITARY CEMETERY:
Couvin, Marche, Mariembourg and Thuin German Cemeteries.
Collarmont German Cemetery, Carnieres.
CASUALTY DETAILS: UK 235; Germany 538; Total Burials: 773
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