Schoonselhof cemetery

View on a part of the cemetery

Castle Schoonselhof

Tomb of Hendrik Conscience

Coquilhat tomb

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

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

1. CWGC: Schoonselhof Cemetery

External links

• Cemetery Details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
• Antwerpen Schoonselhof Communal Cemetery at Find a Grave

Coordinates: 51°09′58″N 4°22′01″E / 51.16611°N 4.36694°E