Hero's walk WWI and WWII Doelstraat 97-99

The Heroes' Walk in Ingelmunster tells the story of several freedom fighters with a striking story from one of the world wars via various locations.
Along the route, which is just over 4 km long, you will stop at nine facades. The memorial plaques always have a QR code with which you can read the extensive stories of all the heroes.

In the Doelstraat, the heart of the neighbourhood where she grew up, there is a memorial plaque for LEONTINE MONTEYNE (1898-1978). Her exact address could not be traced.

In the brochure "Heldenwandeling WOI en WOII", published by the municipal council of Ingelmunster, Kurt Windels, we find the following information:

"Leontine Monteyne was captured twice by the Germans during the First World War.
On 11 October 1915, she was arrested together with several other young women because she had spread a mocking Our Father against the Germans. She was sentenced to two years in prison and spent time in the prison of Halle an der Saale, a city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, but was able to return home on January 23, 1916.

During the war, the German occupiers were very strict when citizens mocked the emperor or the occupiers. On January 6, 1918, she was arrested again and remained in captivity until the end of the war. She was convicted of espionage and spent her sentence in the Holzminden labor camp in Siegsburg, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
On August 11, 1918, she was transferred to a prison in Diest. After the armistice, Leontine was released and returned home on November 23, 1918."

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wim Wouters