War Memorial Ligny

War memorial at Ligny to commemorate the military and the civilian victims of the First and the Second World War.

The names on the monument :
First World War
Soldiers
BOUFFIOUX Vital, soldier 12th Line, Jette 16 July 1917
LECOCQ Fernand, soldier 8th Engineer Regiment, Drongen 9 November 1918
LECOMTE Nestor, guardsman 4th Lancers Regiment, Saint-Martin-Boulogne (F) 4 November 1918
LEGARDIEN Auguste, soldier 4th Transport Corps, Ligny 21 February 1917
RUBAY René, soldier Engineer Regiment, died in captivity in Fintel (D) on 11 November 1918
GENOT Alexandre, died in deportation in Lötzen (D) on 8 February 1917
BOUFFIOUX Pierre, died from the consequences of his captivity in Ligny on 26 June 1920
Civilians
BRUYR Maria, shot by German soldiers on 22 August 1914
BYCHET Armand, electrocuted on the Death Wire on 9 September 1915
COLIN R.
SOMVILLE Victor, shot by German soldiers in May 1914
MAROYE E.
 
Second World War
Soldier
DELMONT François, soldier 13th Line, Namur 13 mei 1940
Civilians
BODART Albert, gendarme, died in deportation in Germany on 1 March 1945
DUFAUX Gaston, died in Hesdin (F) on 25 May 1940
DEPREZ R., victim of aerial bombardment in Villers-Potterie on 15 May 1945
GEUDEVERT Emile, died in an air bombardment in Ligny on 11 May 1940
GOBERT René, resistance fighter executed in Schaarbeek on 17 September 1943
HALLET Blanche, died in an aerial bombardment in Ligny on 11 May 1940
LABARRE E.
LECOCQ Robert, resistance fighter died in Gilly 12 September 1944
LOGNAIS Clementine, victim of aerial bombardment in France

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Source

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