Commonwealth War Cemetery Hautrage

Once they had occupied Mons, the Germans set up governments for the occupied districts of Belgium. One of their first priorities was to bury the soldiers killed in the Battle of Mons in August 1914.
The German government of occupation set up the military cemetery at Hautrage in August 1914 to bury some soldiers killed during the Battle of Mons.
In the summer of 1918, the British soldiers who had been killed in 1914 and who had been buried on the battlefield and in the surrounding villages were exhumed and brought to this cemetery. Most of them had belonged to the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and the 5th Infantry Division. After the Armistice, the bodies of another 24 British and 85 German soldiers were moved to Hautrage Cemetery.
Today, no fewer than 537 German soldiers (355 of whom are unidentified) and 235 British Empire soldiers (60 of whom are unidentified) are buried here. Five Special Memorials are also dedicated to five British soldiers thought to have been buried in the unidentified graves. A total of 772 rest in peace here. As in all cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission with more than 40 graves, a Cross of Sacrifice stands in the centre of Hautrage Cemetery.

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