Memorial Abdon Brulin Haybes

August 24, 25 and 26, 1914 were tragic days in Haybes, a municipality on the Pointe des Ardennes. Sixty civilians were massacred while the city was virtually destroyed.
It was Uhlans from Hargnies who committed the irreparable after sharp clashes with French soldiers who lay in ambush on the left bank of the Meuse.
The civilian victims were executed under gruesome circumstances. Seventeen inhabitants of Haybes and Hargnies who had taken refuge in the slate quarries of Belle-Rose were put to death. They ranged in age from eleven months to sixty-one years old.

One of those killed was Sergeant Brulin of the 18th B.C.P. who fought a street battle with his men in the smoking ruins of the city. He inflicted heavy losses on the enemy but succumbed to his wounds.He was buried at the French military cemetery in Dinant.
In 2014, 100 years later, a room with a memorial plaque was inaugurated for him in Haybes.
The stele in the Sergeant Brulin room is also a tribute to the Chasseurs of this NCO's entire section.

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