Belgian War Graves Virton

The cemetery in Virton contains the graves of military and civilian victims of the First and the Second World War.

First World War
Norbert ADAM, sergeant Engineer Regiment, Bray-Dunes (F) 25 April 1915
Edmond HUMBERT, sergeant 14th Line, De Panne 16 December 1916
Fernand PETIT, corporal 10th Infantry Regiment, Champion 22 August 1914
Robert HELLA, soldier 4th Artillery, Calais (F) 8 December 1914
Léon DAUPHIN, soldier Artillery Fortress Namur, Rotterdam (N) 15 January 1918
Emile DEQUANTER, captain-commander 1st Regiment Chasseurs, Poelkapelle 28 September 1918
Charles DEQUANTER, sergeant 1st Regiment Chasseurs, Poelkapelle 28 September 1918
Octave FONCIN, René GERARD, Jean -Baptiste MARMOY, Lucien MUELLE. These are civilians who were victims of the German atrocities committed in August 1914.
Marcel-Félix LAMBERMONT, civilian victim died in deportation in Diez (D) on 8 May 1917
Louis HENRY, civilian victim died in deportation in Metz (F) on 16 March 1917

Second World War
Albert VLEGELS, soldier Chasseurs Ardennais, Deinze 25 May 1940.
Léon GAVROY, soldier Special Corps of Railways, Ypres 12 May 1940
Henri HAVERLANT (1918-1940)
Jean KUBORN, soldier Chasseurs Ardennais, Boulogne-sur-Mer (F) 24 May 1940
AUTHPENNE Marcel, resistance fighter, killed in Florenville on 12 April 1944
Oscar DUCHENNE, resistance fighter Front de l'Indépendance, executed in Stockem on 3 September 1944
Ivan GEORGES (1907-1945), accidentally shot by an American soldier
Joseph GERARD, resistance fighter killed in Fumay on 12 May 1940
Victor HUFTY, resistance fighter Secret Army, executed in the Citadel of Liège on 2 September 1944
Félix LEFEBVRE, resistance fighter Secret Army, executed in the Citadel of Liège on 2 September 1944
Charles LEFEBVRE, resistance fighter Front de l’Indépendance, executed in Stockem on 3 September 1944
Georges QUINOT, reserve lieutenant Chasseurs Ardennais and officer of the Secret Army, died in the Neuengamme concentration camp (G) on 5 March 1945
Edward SIMONET, resistance fighter died in Gross-Rosen camp (D) on 27 November 1944
Marie-Joséphine THIRY and Anaïs Marie JACMIN, civilian victims killed during the evacuation of May 1940

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Source

• Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge
• https://cimetieresdevirton.wordpress.com/virton/