Apparently a lot of people are in search for information about an ancestor or friend. Regularly I receive mail with questions. Sometimes I can answer them, in most cases however I can't.If you would like to help and you see a person on this list about which you could supply more info, please inform the inquirer or me. (from which you will find the E-mail address on the bottom of each block.)
If you want a name to be added to this list, mail me every bit of information you have. There is only one restriction, the person involved must have something in common with the topic of this site.
So if you are looking for your long-lost-girlfriend which you met during a student exchange program, sorry I can't help you, there are other sites that can.
(Belgium Roots is a site that helps you to find your roots in Belgium.)But if that same girlfriend served in the Belgian army she will be listed, also if she served in the American, British, French, German or whatever other countries army and she has been in military action on Belgian soil, and also if she was civilian, no matter what nationality, and was in Belgium during one or both wars.
If you have any questions about the grave location of a Belgian soldier, Mr. Patrick Dewolf is in the process of creating a database of Belgian burials. He also has a website : Belgian war graves 1914 - 1918.
Given enough interest and reaction I will keep this page updated.
- Name : Cuvelier J.M.
- Nationality : Belgian
- Mother : Madame Cuvelier-Clerese Antoinette
(17 May 1826 - 16 December 1918)
- Function : Archiviste Général du Royaume +- 1929
- Author of the book : La Belgique et la Guerre , L'invasion Allemande
- E-mail to : Jo Vermeulen
- Name : Dunlop William
- Nationality : probably British (Scotland)
- Origin : probably Greenock, Scotland
- Was in Bruxelles around 25 January 1945
- E-mail to : Jo Vermeulen
- Name : Jaumont
- Nationality : Belgian
- Grade : Major
- Unit : (1914) 11° Régiment de Forteresse
- History : During the battle of Liége he commanded the 11° Régiment de Forteresse.
- E-mail to : Jo Vermeulen
- Name : Van Mechelen Pieter Jan
- Nickname : Jean
- Nationality : Belgian
- Address : After WWI he lived in Antwerpen
- Born : Turnhout (Belgium) 20 November 1892
- Grade : Between WWI & WWII, N.C.O.
- Went on leave during WWI to the Montpellier region in France where he met his wife. (She was his 'Marraine')
- E-mail to : Paul F. Van Mechelen.
- Name : Vermeulen Georges
- Nationality : Belgian
- Born : Olmen (Belgium) 21 February 1899
- Address : (1915) Achel (Belgium)
- Grade : Soldat
- Unit : (1916 - 1918) 5° Lanciers - 4° Escadron
- P.O.W. on 6 March 1918 (Grote Wacht Reigersvliet)
- Arrived in P.O.W. camp Dulmen on 25 March 1918
- Arrived in P.O.W. camp Minden on 23 August 1918
- Repatriated : 18 November 1918
- Deceased : Leopoldsburg - Militair Hospitaal, 05 June 1919.
- E-mail to : Jo Vermeulen
- Name : Verschoren Carolus Maria Prosper
- Nationality : Belgian
- Born : 22 July, 1875
- Address : Antwerp, rue Beerooits 9 [or Beervooits?] This is believed to be an address for the family in 1914
- Grade : Soldat
- Unit : 2° Division, 2° D.A. Transport,
- History : Car driver from 1 August 1914 to December 1914. Discharged at King Albert Hospital in Leuven on 5th October, 1915 with 20 procent invalidity.
- E-mail to : Peter Leach
- Name : Wills Albert Edward
- Nationality : British
- He was awarded the Belgian Decoration Militaire during the Great War. We have been unable to find out any details of how he won it from either the British or Belgian governments. Albert served with the 1/1st London Royal Engineers, later renamed the 509th Field Company Royal Engineers. The unit was attached to the 6th Division, BEF. Does anyone have any suggestions where we might find any information on how he was awarded his medal?
- E-mail to : Simon Kind