Memorial Park First and Second World War Oostham

Since 2004, the municipality of Ham has an official memorial park. On this site, around the themes of war and violence, all the war memorials of the sub-municipalities Oostham and Kwaadmechelen were brought together.
Some items from the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History are also on permanent display in the park.

Monuments in the Memorial Park :
- Memorial plaque with the names of the fallen soldiers, veterans and deportees of the First World War
- Monument in memory of the victims of the disaster of Tessenderlo on 29 April 1942
- Cross of a war grave of the First World War
- War Memorial Kwaadmechelen
- War Memorial Oostham
- Memorial stone civilian casualties Second World War
- Monument "The Mourning Widow" in memory of the fallen soldiers in the battle at the Albert Canal in Kwaadmechelen from 10 to 14 May 1940
- Commemorative plaque Belgian Eskadron Cyclists – 6th I.D.
- Monument in memory of the British soldiers who fell during the liberation of Oostham on 8 to 10 September 1944
- Memorial Halifax III HX313 QB-B of 424 Squadron RCAF

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Source

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