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11194


Gateshead


Birtley Cemetery, Memorial to Belgian Soldiers (WW1)


Birtley


NZ25NE


Commemorative


Commemorative Monument


War Memorial


Modern


C20


Structure


Stone memorial 28 inches high with a low pyramidal top. There are 13 names on the sides. Inscription: "1914-1918 THE THIRTEEN BELGIAN SOLDIERS HONOURED HERE DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND LIE BURIED IN THE ELIZABETHVILLE ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY".


268


568


NZ268568



North East War Memorials Project Ref. B127.11 (www.newmp.org.uk); John Bygate, 2006, "Arms and the Heroes - the story of the Birtley Belgians", History of Education Project, Miners Hall, Redhill, Durham

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