History Information (Source: CWGC)

The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk.  Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany.

Beverlo Communal Cemetery contains two Second World War burials, both in Belgian pelouse d'honneur. The small Commission plot is sited at the far right hand corner within the Communal Cemetery.

DE KELVER Dominicus (Peter), Breendonk 11 April 1944, one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.

Domien Dekelver, born in 1923, married Anna Meuris, sister of the partisan Alfons Meuris, in 1942. Cuypers and Dekelver were arrested together by the Belgian gendarmerie on December 23, 1943 and were claimed by the Antwerp Sipo-SD on January 19, 1944 and taken to Antwerp prison. On January 28, 1944, they were imprisoned in the Breendonk camp, where they were subjected to “enhanced interrogations”, outright torture.

Dekelver is convicted by the Kriegsgericht for two liquidations and for participating in railway sabotage. Cuypers is convicted of three liquidations and robberies. Anna Meuris is also arrested. She is deported to German camps as an NN prisoner without trial, but she can return home. She still weighs thirty kilos.

Memorial Victims Bombardment

This memorial commemorates the civilian victims of the allied bombardment of 12 May 1944. About 80 civilians lost their life in this bombardment.

Monument and veteran graves.