St Symphorien Military Cemetery, War cemetery in Saint-Symphorien, Belgium.

St Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World War burial ground in Saint-Symphorien, east of Mons. It holds 284 German and 229 Commonwealth graves on a grassy slope rising to a flat summit. Rows of low pale grey headstones with rounded tops stand on the lower lawn, some in a curved line, and a tall plain stone obelisk rises on the summit behind the graves.

The German Army exhumed isolated graves and reburied the dead here from November 1915, on former quarry land given by biologist Jean Houzeau de Lehaie, who refused payment and required equal treatment of both sides. The cemetery was inaugurated on 6 September 1917 before Rupprecht of Bavaria and Albrecht of Württemberg. After the war the Imperial War Graves Commission took over the Commonwealth graves, and William Harrison Cowlishaw redesigned the grounds.

The site bears the name of Saint Symphorien and serves as a place where visitors encounter soldiers from opposing nations resting side by side. This shared burial ground reflects a commitment to honor the fallen from all sides regardless of their uniform or origin.

The cemetery is easy to walk through thanks to well-maintained pathways connecting all sections. Informational panels throughout the grounds help visitors understand the stories of those buried and locate specific graves.

John Parr, a 17-year-old from London, was killed on 21 August 1914 and is buried here; George Lawrence Price, a Canadian, died on 11 November 1918, minutes before the armistice. Their graves make the cemetery the resting place of both the first and last Commonwealth soldiers killed in the war.