MOL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Antwerpen
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 51.18674 Longitude: 5.11233
Location Information
Mol Communal Cemetery is located 58 kilometres east of Antwerpen. Turn right out of the railway station and after 50 metres turn left into Cabiestraat and drive for 200 metres turning right into Adolf Reydamslaan. Follow this road for 450 metres and turn left into the Collegestraat. The Cemetery is 100 metres on the right. The plot is situated 10 metres inside the gate on the left behind a large tree.
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.
Mol Communal Cemetery contains three Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Burial Details
14669711 Private Albert Sydney Baker, 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment, died 16th September 1944, aged 19. Son of Joseph and Emily Rosaline Baker of Tilbury, Essex.
6200558 Corporal Percy James Crowhurst D. C. M. 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment, died 16th September 1944, aged 30. Son of Percy James Crowhurst and Ruth Louise Crowhurst; husband of Jessie Marjorie Crowhurst.
6917400 Rifleman Francis Fowler McEwan, 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade, died 21st September 1944, aged 29. Son of Alexander Knight B. McEwan and of Jane McEwan (nee Fowler); husband of Mary Olive McEwan (nee Glen), of Denny, Stirlingshire.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
Mol Communal Cemetery is located 58 kilometres east of Antwerpen. Turn right out of the railway station and after 50 metres turn left into Cabiestraat and drive for 200 metres turning right into Adolf Reydamslaan. Follow this road for 450 metres and turn left into the Collegestraat. The Cemetery is 100 metres on the right. The plot is situated 10 metres inside the gate on the left behind a large tree.
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.
Mol Communal Cemetery contains three Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
Burial Details
14669711 Private Albert Sydney Baker, 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment, died 16th September 1944, aged 19. Son of Joseph and Emily Rosaline Baker of Tilbury, Essex.
6200558 Corporal Percy James Crowhurst D. C. M. 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment, died 16th September 1944, aged 30. Son of Percy James Crowhurst and Ruth Louise Crowhurst; husband of Jessie Marjorie Crowhurst.
6917400 Rifleman Francis Fowler McEwan, 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade, died 21st September 1944, aged 29. Son of Alexander Knight B. McEwan and of Jane McEwan (nee Fowler); husband of Mary Olive McEwan (nee Glen), of Denny, Stirlingshire.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
