{"id":5681,"date":"2021-11-04T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/sites-historiques\/commonwealth-military-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:58:03","slug":"commonwealth-military-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"sites-historiques","link":"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/en\/sites-historiques\/commonwealth-military-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Military Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The British in the Battle of the Bulge <\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-1024x643.jpg\" alt=\"Commonwealth War Graves\" class=\"wp-image-4030\" width=\"420\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-1024x643.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-1536x964.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-2048x1286.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/00kb1-600x377.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Commonwealth War Cemetery is located in the village of Hutton. From here, several British units launched the counter-offensive of January &#8217;45 on the west bank of the Ourthe River. As a result, most of the graves in the cemetery date from this period.&#13;\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The cemetery has 666 identified graves, the nationalities of which are as follows: 526 British, 88 Canadians, 41 Australians, 10 New Zealanders, and 1 Pole. There is also the grave of a Belgian soldier, aged 18, who fought under the uniform of the 53rd Welsh Division.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Graves of the Commonwealth Military Cemetery\" class=\"wp-image-4034\" width=\"376\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cimetiere-de-Hotton-FTLB-2-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 FTLB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Today, 21 men remain unidentified. At the entrance to the cemetery, a plaque reads &#8220;The Liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands and the Advance into Germany, September 1944 &#8211; May 1945&#8221;. In December 1944, General Montgomery ordered the 30th British Corps to leave the Netherlands and head for the Ardennes. At Hotton, infantry and armored units would fight from the first days of January and make a junction with American troops at La-Roche-en-Ardenne.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","type_site":[66],"class_list":["post-5681","sites-historiques","type-sites-historiques","status-publish","hentry","type_site-world-war-cemeteries"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Second World War: Commonwealth Military Cemetery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Commonwealth Military Cemetery in Hotton honors the memory of soldiers serving in the British forces.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.landofmemory.eu\/en\/sites-historiques\/commonwealth-military-cemetery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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