Overseas American military cemetery

Flanders Field American Cemetery

Belgium

Location

Flanders Field American Cemetery, Wortegemseweg 117, 8790 Waregem, Belgium

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Visiting

Address: Flanders Field American Cemetery, Wortegemseweg 117, 8790 Waregem, Belgium
Phone: +32 (0)5 660 11 22
Visiting hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
Accessibility: Not yet verified — call the cemetery to ask about parking and paths.
Plan your visit: Visiting information from the American Battle Monuments Commission
Official page: abmc.gov

Details are as published by the American Battle Monuments Commission, checked November 11, 2026. Hours change for holidays, weather and ceremonies.

Admission and hours, from the American Battle Monuments Commission

Business Hours

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.
Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.

When open, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
Admission is FREE and does not require booking in advance.

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Pay your respects

Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.

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About this cemetery

Reproduced from the American Battle Monuments Commission’s own description of this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the agency’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.

The Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium occupies a 6.2-acre site. Masses of graceful trees and shrubbery frame the burial area and screen it from passing traffic.

At the ends of the paths leading to three of the corners of the cemetery are circular retreats with benches and urns. At this peaceful site rest almost 400 of our military dead, most of whom gave their lives in liberating the soil of Belgium in World War I. Their headstones are aligned in four symmetrical areas around the white stone chapel that stands in the center of the cemetery.

The altar inside the chapel is made of black and white Grand Antique marble with draped flags on each side; above it is a crusader’s sword outlined in gold. The chapel furniture is made of carved oak, stained black with white veining to harmonize with the altar; more than 40 names are inscribed on the Walls of the Missing.

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Nearby veterans cemeteries

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Henri-Chapelle American CemeteryBelgium · Overseas American military cemetery108 mi

Distances are straight-line, not driving distances. All overseas cemeteries

Sources

American Battle Monuments Commission. Cemeteries and memorials. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, location and contact details, and the hours and description where shown.
American Battle Monuments Commission. Flanders Field American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.

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