Belgian War Graves Alle-sur-Semois

The municipal cemetery contains two Belgian war graves from the First World War, both fell at the end of the war.

Léon LEBOEUF : soldier of the 8th Line.
Knight in the Order of Leopold
Died for the Fatherland
in Waerdamme
on October 18, 1918
at the age of 34 years.

Alphonse MONGIN : soldier 22nd Line
Knight in the Order of Leopold
Died for the Fatherland
in Houthulst
on September 27, 1918
at the age of 31 years.


There is also the grave of former mayor MONGIN is located in the municipal cemetery.
At the front the text: "Passer-by, stand still and pray.
To the Heroic Martyr of His Devotion - 1892-1944"

Side: "Georges Mongin
Mayor of Alle, former combatant,
member of the L.A.S, political prisoner,
died in the death camp of Elrich"

Georges Mongin was born in Beauraing on July 14, 1892.
He had a younger sister and an older brother Alphonse who was killed in action in Houthulst in 1918.
He worked as a tobacco planter and after his marriage as a hotelier at the Hôtel de la Semois.
Around 1938 he became mayor of Alle-sur-Semois.

During World War II he was a maquisard in the OAS (Secret Army Organization).
His job consisted of relaying messages, supplying the resistance fighters and hiding firearms. In addition, he gave shelter to English paratroopers and helped them rejoin their unit, he also provided them with false papers.
At one point, the Germans took 100 hostages in Alle in retaliation against the guerrillas, then Mayor Mongin surrendered.
He was arrested on May 26, 1944 in Alle-sur-Semois. He was imprisoned in Namur for about a month and then in five different camps in Germany.
In Elrich, the last camp, he died on November 18, 1944.

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