Belgian Headstones Houthulst Belgian Military Cemetery

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Belgian Headstones Houthulst Belgian Military Cemetery

This War Cemetery is maintained by the War Graves Department of the Belgian MOD. It is on the edge of the Houthulst forest which Napoleon called he key to the Low Countries. In his Memoirs the Prince of Wales tells of an incident in 1917 in a dugout near the forest, where he crouched for an hour with the Welsh Guards while a French battery shelled us enthusiastlcally in the belief that we were the enemy. The foremost headstone is that of an unknown soldier who died for his country. Date: 2016

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