Memorial Favarger-Tack
During the First World War the 78-year-old Marie-Thérèse Favarger-Tack lived in a house alongside the frontline but refused to move from this dangerous position. She takes care of the Belgian soldiers in the trenches near her house. The troops called her "The Soldiers' Mother".
Marie-Thérèse Favarger-Tack is buried in the churchyard in Nieuwkapelle.
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Source
- Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
- Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge
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- IJzertower - Museum at the IJzer - Kaaskerke (Diksmuide)
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- Stained-glass Windows Chapel Langewaede - Merkem (Houthulst)
- Former Belgian War Cemetery Molenhoek - Reninge (Lo-Reninge)
- Oud-Stuivekens, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwhoekje - Stuivekenskerke (Diksmuide)
Monument
- War Memorial Oudekapelle - Oudekapelle (Diksmuide)
- War Memorial Sint-Jacobs-Kapelle - Sint-Jacobs-Kapelle (Diksmuide)
- Memorial 2nd Group Heavy Howitzers - Oudekapelle (Diksmuide)
Cemetery
- Belgian Graves Veterans Nieuwkapelle - Nieuwkapelle (Diksmuide)
- Belgian War Grave Sint-Jacobs-Kapelle - Sint-Jacobs-Kapelle (Diksmuide)
- Belgian Graves Veterans Oudekapelle - Oudekapelle (Diksmuide)
Fortification
- Belgian Bunker Oudekapelle - Oudekapelle (Diksmuide)
- Bunker Grote Beverdijk Oudekapelle - Oudekapelle (Diksmuide)
- German Command Regelbau 117b Bunker Diksmuide - Diksmuide
Crash site
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