Bunker VM 10 Soiron

This is bunker VM10 of the 1st defense line of defence fot the city of Liège, La Position Fortifiée de Liège, PFL 1.

It is the 11th of a total of 34 bunkers in this sector, Vesdre-Manaihant. Since bunker VM1 had a “side” bunker, it is the 11th bunker in this sector.

Interestingly, one of the plot markers numbered 5 is present. Striking because normally only 4 bollards were present to mark the four vertices that bound the plot. So this plot will have been pentagonal in shape. DN stands for Defense National, and 5 because it's marker number 5.

The steel shutters and doors are gone. It is possible that a steel door is still present inside the bunker. Once the bunkers lost their strategic value to the Belgian Army, all the steel was sold. The plots of land on which they stood were also sold. For this reason, they now often lie in backyards or in farmers' pastures and are privately owned.

The walls and ceilings of these bunkers are of 1.30 m reinforced concrete. They could withstand shells of 150 mm.

The bunkers of the PFL were built in the 1930s.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
• La Position Fortifiée de Liège, Coenen & Vernier.