Belgian Soldiers buried at Birtley


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Reference WMO/284060

Address:

Birtley Cemetery

Windsor Road

Birtley

DH3 1PQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Stone Obelisk. For clarity this memorial does not mark the place of burial. Elizabethville Cemetery is adjacent, and is indicated on the google map which accompanies this report. This Memorial was placed here by the CWGC when Elizabethville Cemetery was overgrown and they removed the original Belgian headstones. Those headstones were replaced in 2016. Birtley Cemetery itself did not open until the 1920's
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Front face- 1914-1918/THE THIRTEEEN/BELGIAN SOLDIERS/HONOURED HERE/DIED FOR/THEIR COUNTRY/AND LIE BURIED/IN THE ELIZABETHVILLE/ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY; Right hand face and rear face-[names]

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