• Belgrade Cemetery: Belgium Namur was attacked by the Germans on 20 August 1914; the forts were destroyed by heavy artillery, and at midnight on 23-24 the garrison was evacuated. The town then remained in German hands until the end of the war.
Belgrade Cemetery contains 249 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, most of them dating from the ten months when casualty clearing stations were then posted to Namur after the Armistice. There is also one burial of the Second World War. Two South Africans buried in the cemetery are Privates M. R. Bass, 4th Regiment South African Infantry, who died on 28 December 1918 and M. P. Zara, 1st Regiment South African Infantry, who died on 15 November 1918.
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