Memorial cemetery Ougrée

The Ougrée municipal cemetery contains a grave monument in which 22 soldiers who died during World War I are buried.

There are also 3 memorial plaques for two soldiers killed during World War II and one town administrator.


Buried here are;

JORIS Georges, age 24, from Ougrée, soldier in the 3rd Regiment Chasseurs (Hunters), killed in action at Stuivekenskerke on May 2, 1915.

BENECHE Jean, age 25, from Ougrée, corporal in the 12th line regiment, killed by shrapnel in Ramskapelle on September 20, 1917,

HARDY Gustave, age 17, from Ougrée, soldier in the 2nd Regiment d'Artillerie Lourde (heavy artillery), killed by shrapnel at Oostkerke on November 3, 1917.

ROUSSEL François, age 22, from Ougrée, soldier with the 7th Field Artillery Regiment (75mm rapid fire guns), died of wounds sustained by shrapnel to the head, at De Panne on November 11, 1917.

DARRAS Henri, age 23, from Ougrée, soldier with the 8th line regiment, killed at Wijnendale 1 day before his 24th birthday on October 16, 1918.

XHIGNESSE Henri, age 26, from Ougrée, soldier with the 8th line regiment, killed in action on October 19, 1914 at Keiem.

JAMOULLE Michel, age 30, brother of Guillaume, from Ougrée, soldier in the 2 regiment d'Artillerie Lourde (heavy artillery, 220mm rapid-fire mortar), died from probably Spanish Flu on November 3, 1918 at the Institute of Our Lady in St. Michael. 8 days before the end of the war.

JAMOULLE Guillaume, age 30, brother of Michel, from Ougrée, soldier in the 6th line regiment, died of wounds sustained by a plane bomb 2 days before his 31st birthday on March 27, 1917 at the Adinkerke hospital

ROBYNS Toussaint, 26 years old, from Ougrée, corporal in the 8th linieregiment, died in Ougrée from wounds received in Kaaskerke (shrapnel in the head) on April 25, 1919.

MASSIN Leopold, age 26, from Ougrée, soldier with the 5th linieregiment, killed in action at Boortmeerkerk on August 25, 1914.

ENGLEBERT Joseph, age 25, from Ougrée, soldier with 3rd battalion of the Mortiers of Deuren, killed in action at Kaaskerke on September 4, 1916.

VAN STEENHOVEN Louis, 26 years old, from Ougrée, soldier in 1st battalion Obusiers 155mm, died of wounds (projectile in the head) in the hospital of Vinkem on October 13, 1918.

GOSAIN Henri, age 28, from Seraing, soldier in the 4th line regiment, killed on October 21, 1915 at Reninge.

SCHOONAERTS Florent, age 23, from Ougrée, soldier with the Artillerie à Cheval (artillery on horseback), died from an accident (crushed by a train at Antwerp Dam Station) on September 16, 1914.

PIOT Jean, age 26, from Ougrée, soldier in the 22nd Line Regiment, died of wounds sustained on August 18, 1914 at Oplinter.


BODY Nestor, age 32, from Ougrée, soldier with the Artillerie de Forteresse de Liège (AFL), killed on September 28, 1914 in the fortress of Walem at Mechelen.

BERBUTO Armand, from Ougrée, soldier with the 8th line regiment, killed in action at Ramskapelle on April 24, 1915.

LAMBOTTE Emile, age 29, from Ougrée, soldier in the 4th Carabiniers regiment, died of wounds (both legs broken) on August 29, 1915 at the Alveringem hospital.

DELCOURT Nicolas, age 25, from Ougrée, soldier in the 14th company of the Centre d'instruction d'auxiliaires, died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 23, 1915 at the hospital of Carentan (France)

GILLIS Henri, age 29, from Seraing, soldier with the 3rd line regiment, killed during patrol on May 9, 1916 at Stuivekenskerke.

CASPAR Jean, 27 years old, from Ougrée, soldier of the 12th line regiment, killed in action on September 29, 1918 at Langemark.

HECK Noël, age 36, from Ougrée, soldier in the 1st regiment Chasseurs de Forteresse, died of pneumonia on May 9, 1917 at Dahlenburg (Germany).


Remembered are 3 fallen during the 2nd World War

MORAY Jean, age 20, from Wandre, corporal in the 1st linieregiment, killed in Ooigem on May 24, 1940.

THILL René, age 29, from Seraing, soldier with the 3rd army died in captivity at Herborn (Germany) on November 26, 1944

DELBROUCK René, administrator of the Ougrée district, murdered by the NAZIs in the Neuengamme concentration camp (Hamburg) on June 20, 1942.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
• wardeadregister.be
• bel-memorial.org