LIER BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY
Antwerpen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 51.12384 Longitude: 4.54894
Picture © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information
The cemetery is located to the south of the town off the R16 ring road. Take the E313 which runs between Antwerpen and Lier. Turn off at junction 19 Massenhoven, onto the N14 following signs for Lier. At the junction with the ring road R16, turn right onto this and follow round to the junction with N14 again which goes to Mechelen. Turn right here onto the Mechelsesteenweg and the cemetery is along here on the left just past the church at the junction with Rode Kruislaan. The Commonwealth war graves are located amongst the Belgian graves.
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. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany.
Burials were made in Lier Belgian Military Cemetery from a military hospital set up in a school at Lier after the liberation of the town on 4 September 1944; the wounded brought to that hospital included casualties from the fighting around Arnhem in the Netherlands.
Lier Belgian Military Cemetery contains 41 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. There are also 420 Belgian graves of the First World War.
Commonwealth Burials: United Kingdom 32, Canada 9. Total 41.
The cemetery is located to the south of the town off the R16 ring road. Take the E313 which runs between Antwerpen and Lier. Turn off at junction 19 Massenhoven, onto the N14 following signs for Lier. At the junction with the ring road R16, turn right onto this and follow round to the junction with N14 again which goes to Mechelen. Turn right here onto the Mechelsesteenweg and the cemetery is along here on the left just past the church at the junction with Rode Kruislaan. The Commonwealth war graves are located amongst the Belgian graves.
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. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany.
Burials were made in Lier Belgian Military Cemetery from a military hospital set up in a school at Lier after the liberation of the town on 4 September 1944; the wounded brought to that hospital included casualties from the fighting around Arnhem in the Netherlands.
Lier Belgian Military Cemetery contains 41 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. There are also 420 Belgian graves of the First World War.
Commonwealth Burials: United Kingdom 32, Canada 9. Total 41.
K/67388 Corporal
Lionel Gerald Dupois
Le Regiment de Maisonneuve, R. C. I. C.
1st October 1944, aged 24.
Plot II. A. 2.
Son of Tom and Annie Dupuis, of St. Anselme, New Brunswick, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "Born In 1919 In St. Anselme New Brunswick"
Picture of Lionel Dupuis on leave at St.Anselme, N.B. Canada (shown with younger brother Lorenzo)
Lionel Gerald Dupois
Le Regiment de Maisonneuve, R. C. I. C.
1st October 1944, aged 24.
Plot II. A. 2.
Son of Tom and Annie Dupuis, of St. Anselme, New Brunswick, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "Born In 1919 In St. Anselme New Brunswick"
Picture of Lionel Dupuis on leave at St.Anselme, N.B. Canada (shown with younger brother Lorenzo)
D/135671 Private
Joseph Gerald Godfrey
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
1st October 1944, aged 24.
Plot II. A. 3.
Son of Automile and Rae Godfrey. of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "We Only Find Ourselves In Serving Others Till We Meet Mom, Dad, Phyllis And Arnold"
Joseph Gerald Godfrey
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
1st October 1944, aged 24.
Plot II. A. 3.
Son of Automile and Rae Godfrey. of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription "We Only Find Ourselves In Serving Others Till We Meet Mom, Dad, Phyllis And Arnold"
M/51199 Trooper
Alvin Emmanuel Lick
27th Armoured Regiment, Sherbrooke Fusilers Regiment, R. C. A. C.
29th October 1944, aged 28.
Plot V. A. 6.
Son of Gustave and Sophia Lick.
His headstone bears the inscription "The Lord Upholdeth All That Fall, And Raiseth Up All Those That Be Bowed Down"
Alvin Emmanuel Lick
27th Armoured Regiment, Sherbrooke Fusilers Regiment, R. C. A. C.
29th October 1944, aged 28.
Plot V. A. 6.
Son of Gustave and Sophia Lick.
His headstone bears the inscription "The Lord Upholdeth All That Fall, And Raiseth Up All Those That Be Bowed Down"
