Heestert Military Cemetery

Heestert was held by the Germans from the start of the war. It was only taken by the British at the end of October 1918; almost all of the graves are of those who died in the period 21-25 October 1918. The cemetery was built around February 1919 by local farmers. They brought the British and German victims from the battlefield and their farms here to bury them under instruction from the mayor . The cemetery was reorganized in 1920, with the German graves being moved to the south parts of each row. Later that year three more British graves were transferred here from the cemetery at Moen.

184 victims are buried, including 127 Britons (of which 26 could not be identified) and 57 Germans (of which 39 could not be identified). Special memorials were set up for 8 Britons who were known or believed to be buried in the cemetery but whose actual plot was lost or destroyed.

This cemetery was protected as a monument in 2009.[1]

• Arthur Keith Harding, captain in the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). and Thistle Robinson, lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and son of Richard Atkinson Robinson), were awarded the Military Cross (MC).
• Corporals JG Young and Harry Shortman Peter Burridge and Privates F. Byrne, T. Grindle, FJ Boulton, TW Gelder, Harry Richard Foulger and Abraham Barker received the Military Medal (MM).

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Heestert Military Cemetery.

• Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
• Heestert Military Cemetery at Find a Grave