War Memorial Frelinghien

This 1921 monument in the municipal cemetery commemorates the victims from Frelinghien during the First World War. The monument originally featured a series of enamelled metal medallions with the portraits of 41 Frelinghinois (out of 58) who died during this war.

In the late 1930s, they were moved to a location to the left of the entrance to prevent damage from bad weather.

‘These medallions are an original testimony to the country's duty to remember the soldiers who died in the fighting that resulted from the Great War. This duty of remembrance combines collective recognition and individualised remembrance. The use of photographs to create these portraits in medallions lets us remember that beyond the places and relics still visible a century after World War I, there were women and men with their suffering and their hopes’ (City of Frelinghien website)

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• Text: TracesOfWar & Samuël Van Eetvelde & Joni Machtelinckx
• Photos: Samuël Van Eetvelde & Joni Machtelinckx