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    5087222; -0.1206278 The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as the Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Belgian Refugees Memorial, or the Belgian Monument to the British...
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    The Anglo-Belgian War Memorial (French: Monument aux Soldats Britanniques; Dutch: Monument voor de Britse Soldaat) is a monument in Brussels, Belgium, which...
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    The Belgian Infantry Memorial (French: Monument à l'Infanterie Belge; Dutch: Monument voor de Belgische Infanterie) is a monument in Brussels, Belgium, which...
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    an embassy in London. the United Kingdom has an embassy in Brussels. Anglo-Belgian Memorial (Brussels) Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London EU–UK relations...
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  • Division War Memorial Abinger Common War Memorial African and Caribbean War Memorial Andover War Memorial Hospital Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London Arch of Remembrance...
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  • (Petrograd Madonna) Victor Rousseau – Bronze figure group for Anglo-Belgian Memorial, London Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles – L'Âme de la France...
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    between 1914 and 1918, many Belgian refugees fled to the United Kingdom. Because archive material of the hundreds of local Belgian refugee committees is scant...
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  • Glasgow Memorial Gates, Glasgow Memorial Gates, London Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium Porte Désilles, Nancy, France Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany Memorial Gates...
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    The Memorial Gates are a war memorial located at the Hyde Park Corner end of Constitution Hill in London. Also known as the Commonwealth Memorial Gates...
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    II, Albert succeeded to the Belgian throne in December 1909, since Albert's own father had died in 1905. Previous Belgian kings had taken the royal accession...
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    Several war memorials and war graves have been erected in the Belgian region Flanders to memorialize the events that took place there during World War I...
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    site of the Belgian monarchy Official site of the Belgian federal government Belgium. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Belgium at UCB Libraries...
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    days of fighting in which Belgian forces were pushed back into a small pocket in the north-west of the country, the Belgian military surrendered to the...
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    October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British...
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  • Raymond Wilson Chambers (category James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients)
    The Scholar as Librarian as Collector." R.W. Chambers Memorial Lecture at University College, London. The Book Collector 17 no 3 (Autumn 1968): 279-284....
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    commemorated by various war memorials, including civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian...
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    operations in Belgium also moved westwards as the Belgian army withdrew from Antwerp to the area close to the border with France. The Belgian army fought...
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    Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom...
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  • Service Clarence (category Belgium in World War II)
    of Belgian rescuer Albert van den Berg, who died in the Neungamme concentration camp in 1945. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"...
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    War Memorial at Paddington station in London, Portsmouth War Memorial, and the Anglo-Belgian Memorial in Brussels, though the Royal Artillery memorial is...
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    memorial garden, Andrew Wallis, said that the garden's design was "...full of meaningful features" and it was a "...wonderful fusion of Belgo-Anglo craftsmanship...
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    Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
    Staff. During the first years of the Anglo-American alliance, it was often the British who got their way. At the London Conference in April 1942, Brooke and...
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    1830 Belgian Revolution, establishing the modern Belgian state, officially recognized at the London Conference of 1830. The first King of Belgium, Leopold...
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    Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial (category British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War)
    see action, he persuaded the British to allow him to participate in the Anglo-Zulu War. In 1879, serving with British forces, he was killed in a skirmish...
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    Battle of the Yser (category Battles of World War I involving Belgium)
    allowed Belgium to retain a small strip of territory, with Germany in control of 95 per cent of Belgian territory, which made King Albert a Belgian national...
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    World War I (category Wars involving Belgium)
    them to respect Belgian neutrality; France pledged to do so, but Germany did not reply. Aware of German plans to attack through Belgium, French Commander-in-Chief...
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    Sonian Forest (category Forests of Belgium)
    towns of La Hulpe and Waterloo. Thus, it stretches out over the three Belgian Regions. It is maintained by Flanders (56%), Brussels (38%), and Wallonia...
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    Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (category Governors-general of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan)
    deployment of the BEF in Belgium would result in having to retreat and abandon much of its supplies almost immediately, as the Belgian Army would be unable...
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    BEF supply routes, to drive the Germans from the Belgian coast and end the U-boat threat from Belgian waters. Haig was not formally subordinate to Marshal...
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    countries, 88% of Belgian Jews feel that in the course of recent years, antisemitism has intensified in their country. 10% of the Belgian survey respondents...
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