Field of Honour Melsele

Melsele Communal Cemetery contains one Commonwealth burial of the Second World War. It’s the grave of Private Harold William Warden, 1/7th Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), died 11th September 1944, aged 19.

The cemetery in Melsele contains the graves of military victims of the Second World War. These are the graves of van MAES Frans, fallen at Villers-le-Peuplier on 12 May 1940 and LAMBERS Florent, fallen at Waremme on 11 May 1940.

There is also the grave of a civilian victim of the Second World War. It concerns ESSER Rudolf who was sentenced to death by the German occupier for espionage. He was executed in Brussels on 18 February 1944.

There is the grave of VAN PUYMBROECK Alfons, who was killed in the Korean War on 11 October 1951.

The cemetery of Melsele contains a plot with the graves of veterans, former resistance fighters, former prisoners of war and political prisoners of the First and the Second World War.

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc van Waeyenberge