War Memorial Emines

War memorial at the cemetery in Emines to commemorate the military and the civilian victims of the First and the Second World War.
Inscription on the monument (translation) : “TO OUR HEROES”

Soldiers
HENRARD Charles, soldier 13th Line, Saint-Aubin (F) 24 August 1914
CRUBECK Emile, soldier 4th Engineers, Beauvry (F) 19 May 1940
JAUMOTTE Jules, pilot during the First World War. Director of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. Head of the army meteorological service in De Panne. There he was hit by shrapnel on 1 June 1940. He died in Ukkel on 6 July 1940.
ROLOUX Adrien, corporal 42nd Line, Ramskapelle 26 May 1940
Prisoners
DELFOSSE Jules, soldier Fort Artillery Namur, died in captivity on 12 November 1918
GUYAUX Albert, soldier 13th Line, died in captivity in Verden (D) on 24 May 1915
Deported civilians
GUYAUX Maurice, died in deportation on 7 February 1917
POLET Firmin, died in deportation on 23 March 1917
Executed civilians
MATAGNE Joseph, executed in Tamines on 22 August 1918
CASIMIR PAUL, resistance fighter during the Second World War, executed in Berlin (D)
Civilians
BASILIDE Cathérine, DANDUMONT Irma, WIAME Ernestine, SONNET Nicolas

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• https://bel-memorial.org/