Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Website
In Memory of
Sydney Crouch
Driver
T/14696052
Royal Army Service Corps
attd, Royal Army Medical Corps
who died on
Saturday, 13th October 1945. Age 20.
Additional Information:
Son of Frederick and Emma Crouch, of Elham, Kent.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
BRUSSELS TOWN CEMETERY, Evere, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
X. 28. 30.
Location:
Brussels Town Cemetery is located in the north east corner of Brussels in the district of Evere. Follow the 40 Brussels-Liege road in the direction of Brussels and leave at junction 19, signposted Woluwe and Evere. Follow the sign Evere to the right and continue 500 metres along the avenue des Communautes to the first set of traffic lights. Go straight ahead here and down the avenue Ciceron to turn left around the roundabout at the bottom of the road. The entrance to the Town Cemetery is then on your right. Follow the main avenue through the cemetery as far as you can go and the Commission plot is on your left.
Historical Information:
Brussels Town Cemetery was in German hands from the 20th August, 1914, to the date of the Armistice.From the 1939-45 War, the majority of the casualties died on L. of C. duties after the liberation of Brussels at the beginning of September, 1944, but a few date from the brief period that the British Expeditionary Force spent in Belgium in May, 1940. There are now over 50, 1914-18 and over 600, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Fifty graves, from the 1914-18 War, are those of Prisoners of War whose bodies were brought back from Germany by the Canadian Corps in April, 1919. A special memorial is erected to one United Kingdom soldier from the 1914-18, buried in the cemetery, whose grave cannot now be located.