GAURAIN-RAMECROIX WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.60015 Longitude: 3.44238
Location Information
Gaurain-Ramecroix is a village in the Province of Hainaut, on the road from Tournai to Brussels, approximately 6 kilometres east of Tournai.
Gaurain Ramecroix War Cemetery is located 3 km east of Tournai on the rue de Gros Lot, a road leading from the N7 chaussee de Bruxelles and on to Vaulx.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access to the cemetery is possible, but may be by an alternative entrance.
Historical Information
The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk.
The majority of the men buried here were killed in a German bombardment on 19 May 1940. Their remains were removed to the present site by the Belgian authorities in February 1941, from various burial places in the vicinity.
The cemetery contains 70 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 46 of them unidentified.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 24.
Unidentified Casualties: 46.
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
71127 Lieutenant
Peter Austen Knight
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died between 27th May 1940 and 30th May 1940, aged 23.
Plot I. A. 9.
Son of George Brook Knight and Madeleine Florence Knight, of Farnham, Surrey; husband of Alexandra Vivien Anne Knight, of Edinburgh.
His headstone bears the inscription "Think Only This Of Me: That There's Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is for Ever England"
Peter Austen Knight
2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died between 27th May 1940 and 30th May 1940, aged 23.
Plot I. A. 9.
Son of George Brook Knight and Madeleine Florence Knight, of Farnham, Surrey; husband of Alexandra Vivien Anne Knight, of Edinburgh.
His headstone bears the inscription "Think Only This Of Me: That There's Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is for Ever England"
