Liberation Memorial Zeebrugge

This memorial commemorates the liberation of Zeebrugge by the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, on 3 November 1944.

On November 3, 1944, the port and the Zeebrugge region were liberated by the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, an armored regiment of the Canadian army.

On a bluestone platform in a niche there is a rectangular bronze plate in relief with the indication of the coastal strip from Knokke to Blankenberge.
Arrows and dates indicate the advance of the Canadian army.

The text on the plate reads:
" Grateful tribute to the Canadian
Army that on November 3, 1944
Zeebrugge as the last municipal
liberated area of our country "

At the bottom right is the coat of arms of Bruges.
On the edge of the flower box "To the 12th Manitoba Dragoons"

The monument was inaugurated on September 12, 1948.
It was designed by the Bruges city architect Marcel Koeckelbergh,
Gerard Blondel made the bronze plate.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck