CWGC Cemetery: HALLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Visiting Information

Wheelchair Access to the cemetery is possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on 01628 507200.

Local Information

Halle is a town 16 kilometres south-south-east of Brussels on the road to Mons and Tournai. From the Ring Road R0 round Brussels, turn off at Junction 16 (Anderlecht Zuid) onto the N6 in the direction of Halle. Follow the N6 past Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. At the second crossroads turn right into Alsputweg. Follow Alsputweg to the fork and bear left into Jean Jaquminstraat. The cemetery is along here on the right.

Historical Information

Halle Communal Cemetery was used by the Germans during the First World War, and after the Armistice, by the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station. It contains two rows of Commonwealth graves, along the west side, the nineteen in row B having been regrouped from the German plot at the north end. Two of the graves are in isolated positions elsewhere in the cemetery. The cemetery contains 105 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There are also two Second World War burials of May 1940 close to the First World War plot.