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War Memorial Barvaux-sur-Ourthe

War memorial at Barvaux-sur-Ourthe to commemorate the military and the civilian victims of the First and the Second World War.

Inscription on the monument: “TO HIS HEROES / THE MUNICIPALITY OF / BARVAUX”

First World War
Soldiers
BRUYERE Edouard, soldier 1st Chasseurs, 11 May 1915
CHARNEUX Abel, soldier 12th Line, Keiem 19 October 1914
DERROITTE Henri, soldier 10th Line, Kaaskerke 4 May 1916
FREYMANN Jules, brigadier Transport Corps, Sint-Michiels 6 November 1918
LARIVIERE Alphonse, soldier 13th Line, Kaaskerke 2 May 1916
LAMBERT Fernand, corporal 9th Line, Stuivekenskerke 20 January 1916
LAPAILLE Odon, soldier Fortified Position Namur, Barvaux-sur-Ourthe 11 September, 1917
THONNARD Robert, Chief Guard 3rd Transport Corps, Gravelines (F) 3 October 1917
Civilians
GILLARD Prosper, PONCIN Joseph

Second World War
Soldiers
MAIRY Georges, soldier 3rd Chasseurs Ardennais, Fosse (Trois Ponts) 10 May 1940
PONCIN François, sergeant 31st Line, Passendale 27 May 1940
MARTIN Carlos, volunteer Brigade Piron, Leopoldsburg 12 September 1944
COIGNOUL Raoul, Belgian volunteer in the American sector, member of the Secret Army, Hüllscheid (Büllingen) 5 October 1944
Civilians
MARECHAL Joseph, GREGOIRE Clément, HENRY Jules, LALOUX Emile, COETS André
RASQUIN Fernand, resistance fighter, died in the Dora concentration camp (D) in March 1945
PAULUS Victor, political prisoner, deported to Germany and died in the camp Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel on 15 December 1944
ROYER Paul, resistance fighter, died in the Neuengamme concentration camp 31 December 1944

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Source

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

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