Calvary Mound and War Memorials Merksplas

At the municipal cemetery of Merksplas there is a calvary with a cross. Five memorial stones are placed around this:
The political prisoners and one objector who died in Germany.
The men of the 1st Polish Armored Division who liberated Merksplas.
A memorial stone for Pieter Hoogerheyde who was shot by the occupier.
For the soldiers of Merksplas during the First World War.
For five members of a resistance militia from Schaerbeek.

In front of the calvary is a semicircular court of honor with the graves of 91 veterans, soldiers and civilian victims of WWI and WWII.

This Memorial commemorates a number of political prisoners from Merksplas who died in German camps.

Translated text on the monument:

IN MEMORY OF
THE POLITICAL
PRISONERS AND
A WORKREFUSER
DECEASED IN
GERMANY
1940 - 1945
LEYS EDUARD
SCHOOFS AUGUSTINUS
VAN BESAUW LEO
VAN DEN ACKERVEKEN CORNEEL
VANDERHALLEN FRANS
VAN HEES JOZEF
HENDRICKX KAREL
R.I.P.

Memorial commemorating the victims of the Campaign October 1944 - 1945. Translated text on the monument:

OBITUARY
FOR RIGHTS AND FREEDOM

CAMPAIGN
OKTOBER1944-45
HERE DIED FIVE HEROES
OF THE RESISTANCE OF THE
PATRIOTIC MILITIA
OF SCHAARBEEK

BUIJLE DOMINIQUE
DE BECKER JACQUES
HEIJLINGHEN JEAN
VAN DEN BOSSCHE GUILLAUME
VANDERPERREN CLEMENT

THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER

Two monuments in honor of the fallen soldiers during the liberation by the First Polish Armoured Division 0n 29 and 30 September 1944.

This memorial stone commemorates the fallen of Merksplas during the First World War.

Text memorial stone:

Memento of our fallen 1914-1918
Seuntjens Petrus
De Graef Lodewijk
De Prins Gerard
Van den Bergh Jules
Van Es Gustaav
Willemsen Karel
Stockmans Jules
Van den Heuvel Lodewijk
Backx Jos
De Decker Frans Jan
Van Peteghem Theophiel
Marchand Victor
Wilmsen augustus
Eyckens Albert
Van den Langenbergh Maria
Hoogerheijde Pieter
Van Loon Frans
Faes Petrus
Van Gossum Karel
Peeraer Frans

Memorial stone for Pieter Hogerheyde who was executed by the Germans on August 27, 1917.

Text stone:

To Pieter Hoogerheyde
Shot by the Germans on 27 August 1917

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.nl & Jhonny Bastiaensen
• Photos: Jhonny Bastiaensen (1, 2, 3, 5), Maurice Laarman (4)