Belgian War Graves Lomprez

At the cemetery in Lomprez are two Belgian war graves.

One grave contains a victim of the first and second world war.
"Glorious Memory
Arthur TAGNON
War Volunteer
Died for the Fatherland
in Keyen (Germany)
1877 - 1914 "
and on
Abbé Arthur GEORGES
Political prisoner
died for the fatherland
in Siegburg (Germany)
1909 - 1944 "

A copper plaque of the Union IAD - 1940-1945 hangs next to the marble slab:
"They gave everything so that Belgium would live"

Arthur TAGNON was a soldier, 2nd class, 13th line.
He was a former pupil and later a professor at the Carlsbourg Normal School.
A street in Carlsbourg is named after him.

Arthur GEORGES was a member of the resistance and died in deportation.
He attended the seminary in Namur and was ordained a priest in 1934. After that he was a vicar in the cathedral of Namur. He became involved with the Christian workers' youth and during the occupation by Nazi Germany he joined the resistance by supporting Allied paratroopers. On 17 November 1942 he was arrested and sentenced to eight years hard labor by a court martial of the Luftwaffe on 17 April 1943. He came to Siegburg via the prisons Löwen, Aachen, Cologne and Rheinbach. He died there on May 19, 1944 at the age of 34. He was buried in Lomprez, a village in the municipality of Wellin.


In the second grave rests
Fernand GOLINVAUX
Fallen on the field of honor
in Temploux on May 12, 1940
at the age of 32 "

Next to him is his brother René, veteran.

Fernand Golinvaux was a soldier with the 3rd Ardennes Hunters.
On May 12, his regiment was to withdraw from the Ardennes, halting west of Namur for a much needed rest and reorganization. The regiments were housed along the Steenweg on Nivelles to later take a position on the Waver-Gembloux-Namur line.
In the afternoon the German Luftwaffe discovered the columns of the Ardennes Jagers and launched a heavy air raid in which dozens of soldiers lost their lives. The center of gravity of the bombardment was in Temploux, where the 3rd company in particular had to take hard blows and would regret 56 deaths.

Source: Wikipedia and 18-day campaign.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar + Marie-Christine Vinck
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck