Belgian war graves 1st en 2nd world war

Houtain-Saint-Siméon cemetery contains a number of war graves.

Among which is the grave of the chaplain of Fort Eben-Emael.

MEESEN Lambert, age 41, chaplain of Fort Eben-Emael, died April 14, 1943. (photo 1)

He assisted the wounded soldiers of the fort, and was present at the burial of the fallen soldiers. They were buried next to the fort's main entrance. At the funeral, he noted that Private Heine, who had been wounded in the fighting atop the fort on May 10, 1940, was still alive. Soldier Heine manned the so-called MiCa section (Mitrailleuse Contre Avignon) located on the plateau (roof) of the fort. With the machine guns, they served to defend the roof from aircraft. When fighting with the Germans who had landed on the roof with gliders, he was taken for dead.

Soldier Heine was initially transferred to a German Lazarett in the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Kliniek in Tongeren (B). Due to relocation of this German Lazarett toward the front in France, he (and the other wounded) was transferred on May 19, 1940, to the German Lazarett located in the Jesuit Convent on Tongerseweg in Maastricht (NL), where he died of his wounds on May 25, 1940. He is buried in the military field of honor of the municipal cemetery Robermont in Liege. (photo 5)

Also buried there are;

FRENAY Joseph, age 21, soldier with the 4th regiment Chasseurs (hunters), died as a result of illness (possibly Spanish flu) on October 23, 1918 at the hospital in Adinkerke. (photo 2)

TILQUIN Dieudonné, age 30, soldier with the 18th line regiment, died of wounds sustained in the chest on October 23, 1918 at Aalter. (photo 3)

FURNELLE Henry, age 19 !, soldier with the Regiment Fortifiée de Liège at Fort Eben-Emael, he died during the German attack on bloc IV of the fort, on May 10, 1940. (photo 4)

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• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
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