La Plaine au Bois Memorial Site - Farm Bollengier - Esquelbecq

The farm BOLLENGIER in the distance was in May 1940 a French Army depot, guarded by a soldier, Robert VANPEE, born in nearby Quaëdypre.
On 28th May 1940 the S.S. occupied the farm and one of the S.S. perched on a tank was shot.
The nazis lined up the whole BOLLENGIER family against a wall. The soldier VANPEE surrendered and was taken into a field and shot. His body was discovered in the summer of 1941 with 35 British soldiers in a common grave near the bar.
He now rests in the British cemetery at Esquelbecq, alongside his comrades of the Warwickshire and Cheshire Regiments and the Roayl Artillery.

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge