Schoonselhof cemetery explained

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

Schoonselhof Cemetery has an islamic and 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 Principal Architect of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Philip Hepworth.^[1]

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

Notable interments

Roger Avermaete (1893–1988), author
(1879–1965), writer
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
(1919–1997), artist and sculptor
Marnix Gijsen (1899–1984), writer

Ferre Grignard (1939–1982), rock singer
Emiel van Heurck (1871–1931), folklorist
(1920–1998), artist
Alice Nahon (1896–1933), poet
Hugues C. Pernath (1931–1975), writer
Armand Preud'Homme (1904–1986), composer
John Rankin Rathbone (1910–1940), British MP, (CWGC)
François Rom (1882–1942), Olympic fencer
Bernard Tokkie (1867–1942), opera singer
(1885–1945), author
(1907–1992), journalist
Paul Van Ostaijen (1896–1928), writer
Gerard Walschap (1898–1989), writer