French War Cemetery Belle Motte

The French military cemetery of Belle Motte, located on the border between the municipalities of Sambreville, Fosses-la-Ville and Aiseau-Presles, is close to the site of the bloody battles of August 22, 1914. Due to its size - 4,057 soldiers from Bordeaux, Brittany, Normandy and North Africa are buried here - it is one of the largest French war cemeteries on Belgian territory. There are 1,182 French dead in an individual grave and 2,875 dead in two mass graves.
The Germans first used this cemetery in 1917. The German soldiers from the Belle Motte were transferred to the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Langemark in Flanders in the 1950’s.

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• https://horizon14-18.eu/cimetiere-francais-belle-motte.html