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BOUSSU-LEZ-WALCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Hainaut

Belgium

GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.22541 Longitude: 4.37027

Location Information

Boussu-Lez-Walcourt is located south of Charleroi off the N40 between Beaumont and Phillipeville.

From the Charleroi ring road turn onto the N5 in the direction of Phillipeville. Follow the N5 to the junction with the N40 and turn right onto the N40 in the direction of Beaumont. Follow the N40 to the village of Boussu-Lez-Walcourt and turn left into rue Renault. At the T-Junction turn right into rue de Fronia and the cemetery is along here on the left. The three graves are marked by a granite slab. From the entrance of the cemetery turn right into the third gravelled alley. The graves are at the end of this alley against the boundary wall.



Historical Information

Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery contains two Commonwealth burials of the First World War and one from the Second World War, all of them airmen.


​Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery
Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery
Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery
Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery
Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery
Boussu-lez-Walcourt Communal Cemetery
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81408 Flight Lieutenant
Ian Maitland, D. F. C.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 408 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
28th August 1942, aged 37. 

​Son of John and Barbara Maitland, of Appin, Argyllshire.

On the 28th of August 1942, Ian was flying a Hampden B MK I Bomber in an operation  to bomb, at night, the heavy industrial city of Saarbrücken, in Germany.
On their return, just 160 miles from Saarbrucken, the Hampden Bomber AE197 was shot down by the German Luftwaffe, a ‘Night Fighter’ called Wilhelm Herget. Their plane crashed at  Boussu-Lez-Walcourt, Hainaut, in Belgium. 

The plane was one of five from 408 squadron lost on ‘operation Saarbrucken'.

Ian and Wing Commander John Despard Twigg were killed while the two remaining crew survived. John is buried in Gosselies Communal cemetery, also in Belgium.

Flight Lieutenant Fisher (Navigator) died in 1973.

Flight Lieutenant Van Den Bok (wireless operator and air gunner) died in 1988. He was wounded in the leg with shrapnel and awarded a First bar to his D. F. C on his return to the UK.


World War One Burials

36534 Serjeant George Eric Grundy, 205th Sqdn. and 4th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment, Royal Air Force, died 9th November 1918, aged 18. Son of Mrs. B. Grundy, of Sparkhill P.M. Hall, Stratford Rd., Birmingham.
 

Lieutenant E. H. Johnson, D. F. C. 205 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 9th November 1918.

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