Photos of temporary burial sites Belgium.

Discussion in '1940' started by Adam Petipher, Dec 26, 2021.

  1. Adam Petipher

    Adam Petipher Well-Known Member

    I think this is a long shot but I will ask anyway!

    I believe my great uncle (Charles Frederick Burns) may have been buried with a group of 18 other men in a temporary roadside cemetery in Belgium in 1940, called Tieghem roadside cemetery on the concentration sheet, written when the bodies were exhumed in 1947 and reburied in a permanent cemetery, Heverlee.
    Concentration sheet can be viewed on CWGC website.

    He has no known grave and I was wondering if a photograph of the cemetery may have been taken, perhaps even by the CWGC before the bodies were exhumed? As perhaps a photo may show what was written on the grave stone of the unknown soldiers and might be the clue I need to help locate his grave.

    Like I say, a long shot.

    I have added in the tags the regiments of the other men buried in the same temporary roadside cemetery.
     
    Last edited: Dec 29, 2021

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