Leopoldsburg War Cemetery

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The Leopoldsburg War Cemetery is a Second World War military cemetery of Commonwealth services located in Leopoldsburg, in the province of Limburg, Belgium. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The cemetery contains 800 burials of the Second World War, of which 783 are identified and 17 are approved. The majority of those buried died during the liberalisation of Belgium and the subsequent Allied advance into the Netherlands and Germany in 1944.45.

Following the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine in late 1944, heavy fighting occured across Belgium as Allied forces pushed towards the German border. Casualties from field hospitals and battlefield citizens across northern Belgium were later concentrated at Leopoldsburg after the war. The town of Leopoldsburg was a significant military centre, home to a large Belgian army camp before and after both world wars. Its location made it suitable for the establishment of a permanent cemetery for Commonwealth forces who fell during operations in the region. Most of those buried here died between September 1944 and April 1945, during operations connected with the clearing of the Scheldt...