Brussels Town Cemetery

This monument at the City of Brussels Cemetery in Evere, unveiled in 1890, commemorates the British soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers who perished in the Battle of Waterloo.

In the monument's crypt lie the remains of fifteen officers who fell at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Their bodies were initially buried near Waterloo, but more than seventy years later, the British government decided to erect a memorial in Brussels and transfer the remains there. The specific reason for the creation of the Waterloo Memorial was the celebration of the fifty-year reign of British Queen Victoria.

The Belgian sculptor Jacques de Lalaing was asked to design the monument. He created a monumental sculpture in the typical nineteenth-century Romantic style. The sculpture depicts the triumphant female figure Britannia, holding a trident and surrounded by three coiling lions.