Belgian War Graves Houtem

The cemetery in Houtem contains the graves of military victims of the First and Second World War.
PRINSIER Marcel, Merendree 23 October 1918
BULTEEL Roger, Ostend 25 May 1940.

There is the grave of Lieutenant General Félix Wielemans who died at Houtem on 5 January 1917.
Lieutenant General Félix Wielemans was Chief of Staff of the Belgian Army from 1915 until his death. On his death from Spanish flu on 5 January 1917, he was buried in the cemetery of Houtem, where the Belgian army provided a grave monument.

Collective grave with civilian casualties of the Second World War: MAZEREEL Leonie, BAES Germain, VANDENBUSCCHE Marie, DENDOOVEN, with mention "victims of the war".

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge (1, 3, 4, 5), Jhonny Bastiaensen (2)