Canadian War Veterans Memorial Project
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Elouges Communal Cemetery

Elouges , Hainaut , Belgium

Rank	Last Name	First Name	Place of Birth	Date of Death	Plot	Age at Death	Conflict	link
Private	Blanchette	George	Huntingdon, Quebec		B.2. 5.	23	WW1	View

Location

Long: 3.75047 Lat: 50.404

Elouges Communal Cemetery is located 17 km west of Mons in the village of Elouges. Entering in the cemetery at the back of the church, walk through the town cemetery to the Cross of Sacrifice. The cemetery is quite small, 54 graves. Along the left side are the row of Canadian graves.

History

Elouges village and commune was the scene of the Action of Elouges (24 August 1914), in which the Germans were held in check by units of the 2nd Cavalry and 15th Infantry Brigades. It was not retaken by Canadian troops until just before the Armistice. The communal cemetery contains 55 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, three of them unidentified. The 1914 burials, in rows A and C, were mainly from the 5th Division; they are in trench graves, and the actual position of each body in the row is not known. There are also four war graves of other nationalities in the Commonwealth plot.