Municipal Cemetery Robermont Liège

The cemetery of Robermont is a cemetery of the city of Liège. It’s the greatest cemetery of the city and is situated at the east of the city centre at the suburb of Grivegnée.
Robermont Cemetery contains two military sections, a German and an Allied. The Germans section contains a plot with 795 German war graves of the First World War. The Allied plot contains Belgian, French, Italian, Russian and Serbian plots of honour with war graves of the First and the Second World War. There is also a plot with war graves of the Commonwealth.
There are individually burials of Belgian soldiers and officers of both world wars and a Dutch burial of the Second World War.
There are plots with the graves of veterans, former prisoners of war and political prisoners of both world wars. Other graves of veterans and former resistance fighters are scattered throughout the cemetery.
The Belgian plot contains a great war memorial. There are also monuments at the French, Italian and Serbian plots and at the German war cemetery.
There are three monuments of the Second Word War in remembrance of the victims of the concentration camps and the Nazi terror.
The cemetery contains a French and a German memorial of the French-German War of 1870-1871. There are about a dozen graves of officers and soldiers of the Napoleon Army.

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Source

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