Cimetière Militaire d'Anloy-Bruyères

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The Cimetière d'Anloy-Bruyères is a military cemetery with French and German victims from World War I, located in the Belgian village of Anloy. The cemetery is about 2.5 km southwest of the village center, along the road to Framont. It commemorates 1,605 killed soldiers, of whom 1,012 Germans and 593 French.

The ground plan has a triangular shape. On the north side is a circular memorial building. On August 22, 1914, a French and German corps faced each other in the plains and the forest.

The French eventually withdrew to Fays-les-Veneurs and Paliseul. The battlefield was littered with fallen soldiers and their horses. The Germans initially had mass graves made.

In 1916, they finally decided to build military cemeteries. In Anloy there were two cemeteries, one south of the village in the forest along the road to Jehonville and one southwest of the village along the road to Framont, Anloy-Heide or Anloy-Bruyères. In June 1918, both cemeteries were inaugurated.

After the war, the number of cemeteries was reduced and...