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Belgian War Graves Belgrade Saint Servais

The cemetery contains Belgian war graves:
- Plot for civil bombing victims lay on this honorary restrictions, most of them deceased on 18 August 1944.

- Plot for Belgian fallen from the Second World War. The Political Prisoners are also commemorated here. There's an urn with ashes from Dachau at the memorial.

- Plot for Belgian Military Graves, all killed in the First World War. There is also one grave of a Belgian soldier killed in the Second World War.

The Belgrade cemetery also has a gravestone for three civilians who were shot during the First World War:
‘The city of Namur
To the civilian heroes
shot for their country’

Below are three names:
SIMON Charles: executed in 1915

MASSART Clement: lived in Floreffe. He was a military intelligence officer for the Namur-Luxembourg division. The Massart network was established in September 1915 and had about twenty agents. He was sent to occupied territory as a technical clerk and set up several railway observation posts around Namur. He died in Hasselt on 4 November 1916.

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Source

  • Text: Ricky Van Dyck + Marie Christine Vinck
  • Photos: Ricky van Dyck (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Marie Christine Vinck (6, 7, 8)

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