Belgian War Graves Cul-des-Sarts

The municipal cemetery of Cul-des-Sarts contains three war graves from both world wars.

Honorat DUCOIN: office clerk in Cul-des-Sarts, in military service in 1913.
He was a soldier 2nd class 9th Line 4th Company,
Fallen on the field of honor at the battle of Aarschot on 19 August 1914.
He was initially buried in Aarschot and later (20 October 1921) reburied in his native village Cul-des-Sarts.

Joseph SIMON: victim of Nazi barbarity and the traitors of the country. He died in 1945 at the age of 22.

Jules CUVELIER: deported civilian, stayed as a forced laborer in Siegen. He was admitted to hospital there on 15 April 1944. He had serious heart and vascular diseases but died of pneumonia on 24 April. He was 19 years old.
He was buried in the cemetery Hermelsbach in Siegen. In 1948 he was reburied in the municipal cemetery of his native village Cul-des-Sarts.
(Source: Bel-Memorial)

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck