Schoonselhof cemetery

Schoonselhof Cemetery (Antwerpen Schoonselhof) is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium.

View on a part of the cemetery

Castle Schoonselhof

Tomb of Hendrik Conscience

Coquilhat tomb

Schoonselhof Cemetery has a Jewish section.

There is also a Commonwealth war graves plot containing the graves of 1,557 British Commonwealth service personnel who died in the World Wars, 101 from World War I and 1,455 from World War II, besides 16 Polish and 1 French war burial, a United States airman attached to the British Royal Air Force, and 16 non-war graves, mainly of merchant seamen. The plot was laid out by the Commission's Principal Architect, Philip Hepworth.[1]

The cemetery was mentioned in the TV show GRIMM, Episode 14 of Season 1.

Notable interments

Désiré Beaurain (1881–1963) Olympic fencer
Peter Benoit (1834–1901), composer
Pierre Bruno Bourla (1783–1866), architect
Gaston Burssens (1896–1965), writer
Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883), writer
Jan Cox (1919–1980), painter
Henri De Braekeleer (1840–1888), artist
Herman De Coninck (1944–1997), writer and journalist
Willem Elsschot (1882–1960), author

Marnix Gijsen (1899–1984), writer
Ferre Grignard (1939–1982), rock singer
Emiel van Heurck (1871-1931), folklorist
Alice Nahon (1896–1933), poet
Hugues C. Pernath (1931–1975), writer
John Rankin Rathbone (1910-1940), British MP, killed in action (Commonwealth war graves plot)
François Rom (1882–1942), Olympic fencer
Bernard Tokkie (1867–1942), opera singer
Paul Van Ostaijen (1896–1928), writer
Gerard Walschap (1898–1989), writer

References

CWGC: Schoonselhof Cemetery

External links

Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Antwerpen Schoonselhof Communal Cemetery at Find a Grave
"SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY", Remembering the Fallen

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[1] CWGC: Schoonselhof Cemetery