Belgian War Graves Laken

The cemetery in Laken contains two war cemeteries with soldiers who fell in the First and Second World War.
A total of 125 soldiers on the two places of honour.

The tombstones of the fallen from the First World War are decorated with sculpted patriotic accents: the lion sitting in front of the flag, a laurel wreath together with a palm branch, the capital A of King Albert I under a crown,… Nowhere else than in Laeken there are. so artfully crafted and mutually different gravestones. The size of the tombstones is not the same everywhere, nor are the carved elements and the engraved information.
Some stones read "Pro Patria", others read "Gloria Viris" ("In honor of the men").

There is a monument on the plot of war dead from the Second World War.
Architect Jean Rombaux and the Chief Engineer-Director of the City, Schoonjans, drew the plans for this monument.

It consists of a memorial column, a semi-circular wall and individual headstones.
Next to the column is a memorial stone on either side, version in the two national languages:
" In Memoriam
To the Laeken heroes
disappeared during
the war 1940-1945"

In addition to the 2 places of honor, the Laeken cemetery also contains a number of individual graves of fallen soldiers.

Max Pilgrims (1890-1914)
Soldier in the 9th Line Regiment.
Died for the fatherland at the age of 24 by
the heroic protection of the retreat from Aarschot on August 19, 1914"

Monument of Ernest Salu. The young soldier is pictured dying
with part of the Belgian flag pressed to his chest.

"Jean Alfred Marie Joseph
the Stroke
Born in Brussels on November 10, 1894
Died for the Fatherland
in Dury-lez-Amiens on May 28, 1917"

Student of literature and philosophy, volunteer brigadier in the 3rd Lancers Regiment.

" Reminder of
Our beloved son Raymond (Herreman)
Adjutant of the regiment of carabiners
Fallen on the Field of Honor September 28, 1918, 25 years"

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Source

• Text: Marie-Christine Vinck
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck