War Memorial Louveigné

This monument commemorates the 27 civilians from the municipality of Louveigné who were executed and and 8 soldiers who were killed in action during the First World War.

The 25 civilians who were shot by the German army during a massacre on August 7, 1914, are commemorated:

ADAMS Alfred

ANCION Camille

BONESIRE Adelin

COLLARD Lucien

COLLETTE Englebert

CORNET Victor

DEFAAZ Thomas,

Three members of the DEJONG family;

DEJONG Simon Georges

DEJONG Simon Joseph

DEJONG Simon Albert

DELHAES Jean Joseph Florent

DELHAES Jean Joseph

DELREZ Marie together with her husband MARTIAL Armand

DEMENIL Gilles

DETHIER Hélène,

DETHIER Martin

GRANDRY Eugène,

KERFF Jean and his wife PIRE Adolphine (38 years old)

LECART André

MARTIAL Armand, together with his wife DELREZ Marie

PIRE Adolphine, together with her husband KERFF Jean

SLUSE Joseph,

SLUSE Jean,

SLUSE Leon,

THONON Nicolas


ROSETTE Martin, 49 years old, wounded during the flight from the village on August 8, 1914, and died of his injuries the same day.

RANSY Hubert, 37 years old, shot on August 10, 1914


Soldiers who died

ADAMS Guillaume, age 28, born in Louvigne, soldier in the 2nd Engineer Regiment, died on March 25, 1919, in Rheinberg (Germany) of pneumonia. At the time of the armistice on November 11, 1918, he was probably in too poor a condition to be transported back to Belgium, either due to injuries sustained or illness, or a combination of both. He was reburied in Louvigné on May 1, 1923.

ANTOINE Edmond, age 28, soldier at Centre d'Instruction number 1, died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris on July 10, 1918,

BURNOTTE Leon, age 24, from Louvigne, soldier in the artillery of Fort Chaudfontaine (Artillerie de Fortresse Liège, A.F.L.), killed during the explosion of the powdermagazine of Fort Chaudfontaine on August 13, 1914. 71 soldiers were killed in this explosion.

DUBOIS Florent, 28 years old, from Louvigné, soldier in the 14th Line Regiment, died of pulmonary tuberculosis, probably caused by Spanish flu, on April 16, 1918, in the Hellandes Hospital in Angerville-l'Orcher (France).

EVRARD Marcel, 19 years old, from Liège, corporal pilot in the military air force, crashed on September 21, 1916, in Étampes (France).

FISSON Leon, 23 years old, born in Louvigné, soldier in the 12th Line Regiment, died of his wounds on June 7, 1915, in the Belgian military hospital in Adinkerke.

SCHWEYEN Jean, 24 years old, born in Louvigné, soldier in the 5th Line Regiment, killed in action on September 12, 1914, in Rotselaar.

ZINZEN Julien, 23 years old, born in Louvigné, soldier in the artillery of Fort Embourg (Artillerie Fortifié de Liège, A.F.L.), died in captivity in Münster (Germany) on January 4, 1915, from a hematoma.


A separate memorial also commemorates

FORTHOMME Emile, a forester and war invalid from the First World War, who was an adjutant with the resistance group Agents de Renseignements et d'Action, A.R.A. He was arrested and deported to Camp Dora (Camp Mittelbau-Dora in Nordhausen) in Germany, where he died of hardship on February 24, 1945.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski (1, 4, 5), Joost Verheijden (2, 3)
• bel-memorial.org
• wardeadregister.be