Bunker BE 1 Boncelles

Bunker BE 1 is located along a new city district in the city of Boncelles in a tiny wood and is part of sector Boncelles-Embourg (BE) of the second line of defence for the city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège, (PFL 2).

The bunker is located on a tiny forestplot and can be seen from the parkinglot of the new city quarter.

To the south-west side the sector BE borders to sector Flémalle-Boncelles (FB, consisting of 4 bunkers, of which 1 still remains). To the north it borders sector Embourg-Chaudfontaine EC, consisting of 5 bunkers of which 4 still remain).

When after the war the bunkers lost their strategic importance for the Belgian defence, the metal doors and shutters were removed and sold as scrap. It is a large bunker and would hold two machinguns ore one and a 47 mm anti-tank canon.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski